Compare .com Domain Prices Across Registrars

Overall-value formula and tie rules

The score uses only evidence collected consistently for all 25 registrars. The maximum is 100 points: 70% ownership cost + 15% offer accessibility + 10% payment flexibility + 5% trust/privacy.

• Ownership cost, 70 points: for each displayed one-, two-, three- and five-year USD total, the cheapest registrar receives 100 and each other registrar receives 100 × cheapest total ÷ registrar total. The four duration scores are averaged and multiplied by 70%.
• Offer accessibility, 15 points: a public price requiring no restricted coupon receives 100. A registration coupon limited to one discounted domain per customer receives 70, reducing the final score by 4.5 points rather than removing the offer entirely.
• Payment flexibility, 10 points: each distinct payment-method category in the comparison data counts once, with proportional credit up to a cap of 12 methods.
• Trust/privacy, 5 points: registrars in this comparison receive the five-point privacy baseline when WHOIS privacy is listed at $0.00/included; paid or unsupported privacy receives zero baseline points.

If overall scores tie, the higher ownership-cost score wins, followed by the lower five-year USD total and then alphabetical order.

This is an overall-value ranking within the evidence verified on this page. Support quality, interface usability, DNS tools and detailed security differences remain in the linked registrar reviews until they can be scored consistently.

Reproducible overall-value audit

The table shows the weighted points that produce the displayed order. Scores are rounded to one decimal place for display.

Cost points use the checked USD ownership totals. GBP and EUR figures are rough currency conversions for comparison only and do not determine the order. Payment points use the distinct payment categories in the comparison data and are capped at 12.

Offers, restricted coupons and ownership totals

• Year one uses the publicly displayed registration price or qualifying offer; later years use the displayed annual renewal price.
• A one-per-customer coupon remains in the ownership-cost calculation because it is genuinely available to a qualifying new customer, but it receives 70/100 rather than 100/100 for offer accessibility. At a 15% category weight, that is a 4.5-point overall penalty.
• This adjustment prevents a restricted acquisition offer from receiving the same value credit as an equally priced public offer, while avoiding the opposite extreme of ignoring a real discount completely.
• Existing customers and portfolio owners should compare the unrestricted standard registration price because the one-domain coupon may not apply to them.
• Offers requiring a hosting bundle, paid membership, private negotiation or unverified eligibility are excluded from the ranking.
• Taxes, optional products and future price changes are excluded unless unavoidable and already included in the displayed price. Mandatory ICANN fees are included where listed separately.

Selection and price-check record

The comparison currently covers 25 registrars. The first six are shown in each ranking section and the remaining entries are available through the Load more control. Prices, offer conditions and ownership-cost calculations use the same published method across the expanded set.

Checked

12 August 2026, 03:57 BST

Checking location

United States VPN for USD price checks

Price source

USD prices checked using each registrar’s US-facing prices; GBP and EUR figures are rough currency conversions for comparison only

Browser state

Logged out, private-browsing window and cookies cleared

Customer type

New customer unless stated otherwise

Registration term

One year

Quantity

One .com domain

Domain used

The same currently unregistered test string was checked consistently

Included

Mandatory ICANN fee where displayed separately

Excluded

VAT, local sales tax, optional email, hosting and other add-ons

Coupon treatment

Entered manually where stated

Renewal

The registrar’s standard one-year renewal price

Transfer

The one-year inbound transfer price where available

Ranking currency

USD

Price-check scope: displayed prices can change after the recorded check time and may vary with eligibility, billing details, taxes or checkout conditions.

Trust gate and all-round registrar quality

Trust remains a pass-or-fail inclusion gate. A provider that fails is excluded. An included registrar receives the five trust/privacy points only when it meets every mandatory condition below and includes WHOIS privacy.

• Be ICANN-accredited or clearly identify the ICANN-accredited sponsoring registrar.
• Have an active public .com checkout and a verifiable legal or operating identity.
• Publish support and abuse-reporting contact routes.
• Publish renewal, expiry, restoration, transfer and privacy terms.
• Provide account-recovery and domain-transfer safeguards.
• Have no active ICANN accreditation suspension or termination notice found at the review date.

A broader registrar review should then assess the following separately so a low price is not mistaken for the best overall service.

These qualitative factors are not assigned invented points on this page. They belong in the linked registrar reviews; the overall-value score here covers only factors measured consistently across all 25 providers.