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Any differences between Namecheap and Spaceship?
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this post was submitted on 29 Oct 2023
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Sorry to say I’ve never heard of spaceship, but wanted to make sure you know that Cloudflare now has a registrar service, so if you’re already using them for DNS, that might be worth a look for you.
And they do not markup domain prices. You pay what they pay.
It's too expensive for me (Cloudflare is $10, and my options are $2).
What does your second year cost look like? Often $2 domains are only $2 in the first year.
I only buy one year at a time.
And then change to a different domain? Depending on the domain, you may not be able to renew it for another year for $2
Or pay a fee >$10 for transferring the domain to a different registrar.
What TLD is it?
xyz, because of the low price.
You probably won't get the discount price for a transfer.
The first year price is a "loss leader" discount. Get you in the door, then make a profit from you in future.
Namecheap have a bit of a reputation (as can be seen here with a few people warning of poor support), Spaceship seems to be a bit of a offshoot/addition they have created, partly as it doesn't seem to be a 1-1 comparison, and partly maybe to avoid their existing reputation?
However, it's not entirely a bad idea to separate your registrar from your DNS provider. If one goes down, you still have access to the other to make changes. I used namecheap in the past because it was cheap, and cloudflare for DNS. If you are using both for only your registrar, it probably won't matter much at all as you are probably not changing nameservers often, if at all, once set.
That renewal price on Namecheap is $15
Most registrars give you an obnoxiously low first registration price so they can get you with the real fee (often $15-50+ per year) later.
Any time you see the discount price mark on Namecheap, expect to be paying at least the original price per year.
https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/gtld/xyz/