On 27 Nov 15:42, Mark Rogers wrote:
As a side note, I see that everyone I've looked at charges somewhere around £6-£7 for a .co.uk, but .com are split between companies charging around £7-£8 and ones charging £12-£15.
Any idea why the difference? Surely there's a registrar cost (same for all providers) and then their own costs on top (same for all types of domain within that provider). But that's obviously not the case.
.co.uk comes via Nominet, which is a not entirely insane registrar.
.com, however, there'll be differences on depending on which particular registrar they're using and the quantity of domains registered via them - there's a discount scheme etc. Mythic use OpenSRS for .com registrations, and the pricing matches to covering our costs.
Also, all types of domain are not the same price. See, for instance, the pricing for .xxx domain names, or .io...
Thanks,