Bundled Registrations
Hosting with a free domain — A bundled domain is still a registration — read it as one
The free year is easy to value. What decides whether the bundle was a good deal is the registrant record and the renewal figure.
The short answer
Take the bundle only where the registration is in your own details, the renewal is at ordinary list price and the name is released on request: that is a plan covering first-year registration and then charging the standard renewal rate — the saving with nothing tied to your ankle.
Below: the three questions that settle any bundle, what the sixty-day lock is and is not, and which endings actually qualify.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 24 August 2026
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A bundled domain saves money in year one and nowhere else. Run the calculation across five years and hosting quality dwarfs that one-off discount entirely, which is exactly the sum bundle marketing would rather you never did.
That does not make bundles bad. It makes them a registration you should read like any other — because the discount is small and the terms attached to it are not.
Three questions that settle any bundle
Whose details go on the registrant record? If the answer is anything other than yours, you have a subscription rather than a registration, and the difference only shows itself on the day you want to leave.
What is the renewal figure in year two? A free first year attached to an above-market renewal is a deferred cost dressed as a discount. Ask for the number, not a reassurance.
Will the name be unlocked and the auth code issued on request? A provider that hesitates here is telling you what the free year was really buying.
There is a fourth worth adding: what happens if you cancel the hosting. On any decent arrangement the registration simply runs to the end of its paid term.
The sixty-day lock, and what it is not
For roughly sixty days after a registration or a transfer, the registry will not permit the name to move to another registrar. This applies to names bought on their own exactly as it applies to bundled ones.
It is a registry rule aimed at hijacking, not a commercial condition, and no provider can waive it. Anybody presenting it as their own policy is either confused or hoping you are.
A related trap is genuine, though: changing the registrant details also commonly starts the same sixty-day clock. So if you plan to correct the record and move registrar, do the transfer first or accept the wait.
Which endings qualify, and why it matters later
Bundles differ enormously in what they include. Some cover a .com; others cover only endings nobody was competing for.
The reason to care is the renewal. Each ending has a registry behind it setting its own prices and policies, and some of the endings that are cheapest to register are among the dearest to renew. A free year on an ending with a high renewal is the classic version of this.
A few endings carry entry requirements as well, since some country codes demand a local presence. Check before you build a brand on one, because eligibility is not something a host can arrange for you.
What we do, stated plainly
Order an annual plan and the first year of the name's registration is included. The registration is recorded in your details, and it renews afterwards at our ordinary list price — the same figure you would pay buying the name on its own. There is no inflated bundle-renewal rate in the terms.
Once the registry's sixty-day lock lifts, the name transfers out on request with the usual auth code, and any remaining term goes with it.
In concrete terms the plan is Sprint: one flat rate carrying the essentials — SSL, migration, copies, mail — with NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching under every tier including the smallest, and in-place upgrades when the work picks up.
If you would rather buy the name separately. That is a perfectly sound choice, and it costs you one nameserver change. Register wherever you like, point the name at us, and the zone editor in the panel takes over from there.
The argument for splitting is control: two suppliers means a dispute with one never strands the other. The argument against is that most people manage one renewal calendar better than two.
Either way, keep the registrar login somewhere findable. It is the login that matters when something goes wrong, and it is the one people cannot produce.
The free year, without the tether
We include the first year because it is a fair thing to include, not because it buys us leverage. In your details, ordinary renewal, released on request.
NVMe storage and LiteSpeed caching sit under every tier, the smallest plan included — that is the floor here, not an upgrade.
- The registration recorded in your own details
- Ordinary list price at renewal, published
- Auth code issued on request after the registry lock
- Remaining term carried over on transfer
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
In your details, not ours
The registration is recorded as yours from the start — the single thing that separates a bundle from a tenancy.
No bundle premium
It renews at our ordinary list price, the same figure you would pay buying the name on its own.
Released on request
Unlocked and the auth code issued once the registry's sixty-day lock lifts, with the remaining term carried over.
A named company, not a brand
Azaanex Inc., federally incorporated in Canada — a filing you can read before accepting anybody's free year.
One rate, published in the open
What you order the hosting at is what you renew it at, so neither half of the bundle surprises you later.
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform, and none of it needs the name to move.
Prices Side by Side
How our prices sit against the majors
What the market typically charges to join and to renew, set beside ours, including the renewal figure most comparison charts leave out.
| Feature | Hosting & DomainsMost popular | Typical household-name host | Typical bargain host | Typical loss-leader deal |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starting price / mo* | $2.42/mo | $4–$6 | $2–$4 | $1–$3 |
| Renewal price / mo | $2.42/mo | $10–$15 | $8–$12 | $4–$6 |
| Entry-level plan renews at the price you signed up at | ||||
| SSL as standard | ||||
| Migration done for you | ||||
| NVMe drives on the entry-level tier | ||||
| Backups run every day from the first tier up | ||||
| Real humans on support, 24/7 |
*Our own column shows the lowest-priced annual plan on our books, pulled live from the same catalogue that feeds the pricing page, which is why it cannot go stale. Beside it sit three columns holding the ranges that hosts in each bracket tend to advertise: introductory rates that normally ask for one to four years up front, then climb once the term runs out. Naming rivals and printing their figures is something we gave up, since a price nobody can verify on the day you happen to read this has no business on the page. Measure us against the host you are actually weighing up, and give the renewal row the hardest look of the lot.
Quick Start
Order placed to site online
- 1
Ask the three questions in writing
Registrant details, year-two renewal figure, release on request. Get them answered before you order, not after.
- 2
Note the lock date as well as the renewal date
Sixty days from registration or transfer before the name can move again. Plan any intended change of registrar around it.
- 3
Check what the ending renews at
Registries price their own endings. Some of the cheapest to register are among the dearest to keep, and a free year hides exactly that.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- The name's first year included when you order annually
- Registration recorded in your own details
- Renewal at ordinary list price, published rather than footnoted
- Auth code issued on request once the registry lock lifts
- Remaining registration term carried over on transfer
- Free SSL on every plan, reissued before the old one lapses
- Full zone editing in the panel once the name points here
- Upgrades applied in place, with no migration when you change plan
- Money back within 30 days on hosting plans, 7 on reseller
- 99.9% uptime as the target, watched around the clock
Frequently Asked
Questions we field again and again
Whose details end up on a domain that came free with hosting?
That depends entirely on the provider, which is why it is the first question to ask. Here it is yours: the registration is recorded in your details. Elsewhere it is sometimes the provider or a proxy, and a name registered in somebody else's details is one they have to agree to release.
What does the name renew at after the free year?
Our ordinary list price for that ending — the same figure you would pay buying it on its own, with no bundle-renewal premium in the terms. Ask any provider for the number rather than a reassurance, because this is where a cheap first year is usually recovered.
Why can I not transfer it for sixty days?
Because the registry will not allow it. A lock of roughly sixty days follows a registration or a transfer, as an anti-hijacking measure, and no registrar or host can waive it. Changing the registrant details commonly restarts the same clock, so sequence those two jobs deliberately.
If I cancel the hosting, do I lose the name?
No. The registration runs to the end of the term that was paid for, stays in your details, and can be transferred to another registrar once the lock has passed. A provider whose answer to this question is anything else is describing a tether rather than a gift.
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Recorded as yours, renewing at ordinary list price, and released with an auth code whenever you ask.
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