Name Owner's Brief
Hosting with fixed renewal pricing — Read the second column. That is the price you will actually pay.
You were caught once by a year-two hosting invoice, and the next ambush is already sitting in a domain price table where the registration figure and the renewal figure are nowhere near each other.
The short answer
Buy from a provider that prints the renewal figure beside the registration figure on the hosting and on every ending — because in this trade the steepest renewal jumps are not in the hosting column at all, they are in endings that register for a couple of pounds and renew at many times that.
The hosting version of this game is well known: a first year priced as a loss, a second year priced to recover it. The domain version is less discussed and harder to escape, because a name is not something you shop around for annually. You keep it, and you keep paying whatever its ending decided to charge.
By the Hosting & Domains team · Reviewed 24 August 2026
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This page is for buyers already ambushed once by a year-two invoice, and it looks at both halves of the bill rather than only the loud one.
The teaser model runs entirely on inertia. The bet is that most customers will not move over a tripled renewal, and twenty years have proved that bet sound. With a domain the bet is even safer, because moving registrar does not change the registry's price at all.
Two renewal games, only one of them familiar
Hosting renewals rise because acquisition is a bidding war fought with deliberate first-year losses. Step out of the auction and you can simply charge the same figure every year, which is what we do: the rate you register at is the rate you renew at.
Domain renewals rise for a different reason. The registry sets what an ending costs, and some endings are marketed on a heavily discounted first year with a standard renewal several times higher. No registrar can discount that away, and moving to another registrar does not touch it.
Where the domain jumps actually live
The steady endings are the boring ones. .com registers from $11.99 here and renews at $16.99 — a step up, but a published one. The Nominet endings hold steadier still: .co.uk, .uk and .org.uk register from $10.99 and renew at $11.99.
.xyz is the honest example of a discounted first year: it starts from $2.99, and the standard renewal printed beside it is the figure to plan around. Others are less forgiving — .store, .online and .tech all register for very little and renew at many times the registration price.
None of that is a scandal, and none of it is hidden here. It is simply why the renewal column is the one to read, and why choosing an ending is a longer-term commitment than choosing a host.
What is inside the figure
Generic endings carry a mandatory ICANN fee — currently about $0.18 a year — and it is already inside the registration and renewal figures shown here. Checkout adds nothing further.
WHOIS privacy is free at registration and still free at every renewal wherever the registry allows it, rather than a line item that appears in year two. There is no set-up charge at any point and no joining fee on the hosting side either.
The habit that beats all of it
Work out the 36-month total with renewals folded in, for the hosting and every name you intend to keep, and compare those figures directly. The lowest headline price rarely wins that sum, and the exercise takes about ten minutes.
Then remove the failure mode that costs most: switch auto-renew on. A lapsed name runs through grace, then redemption at several times the renewal, then an open auction, and every stage costs more than the renewal you were trying to avoid.
The plan, and where to check us. From our range that is the Sprint plan: the certificate, the migration and the mailboxes already inside, renewed at the order rate, and upgradeable without a move.
The renewal column is on the domain pricing table before you order and the hosting renewal equals the order rate, both of which you can screenshot. The company behind them is Azaanex Inc., federally incorporated in Canada, with a public filing.
The column we could have left out
Printing the renewal figure beside the registration figure loses us orders on endings whose second year is dear. We print it anyway, because a customer surprised in twelve months is not a customer for the twelve after that.
Free SSL on every plan, issued as the name resolves and renewed before expiry — nothing for you to remember.
- Both figures in the same row, every ending
- Hosting renewal equals the order rate
- The ICANN fee already inside the price
- Privacy free at renewal, not only at signup
Why Hosting & Domains
Standard on every plan
The second figure, printed first
Registration and renewal share a row on every ending, so the year-two number is one you already knew.
No footnote doing the real work
Nothing on the pricing page needs an asterisk after the word introductory, because there is no introductory rate.
The ICANN fee already inside
About $0.18 a year on generic endings, included in the figures shown rather than added at checkout.
Privacy that stays free
WHOIS privacy costs nothing at registration and nothing at renewal wherever the registry allows it.
An upgrade path that is real
Shared, VPS and dedicated on one platform, so a plan change never becomes a migration.
The verdict, turned into an order
The Sprint plan is this page's answer written as an order line — one rate, essentials inside, upgraded in place.
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
Total 36 months, hosting and names together
Renewals folded in, add-ons included. The order of candidates rearranges itself as soon as you do this properly.
- 2
Choose the ending on its renewal, not its offer
A discounted first year is a marketing decision by a registry. The renewal is the price of keeping the name for a decade.
- 3
Switch auto-renew on and check the contact
The most expensive renewal is the one you miss. Grace, redemption and auction all cost more than paying on time.
Built In
Fitted to every plan
- Hosting renewed at exactly the rate you ordered at
- The renewal figure shown beside the registration figure
- The ICANN fee included, not added at checkout
- Shielded contact details wherever the registry permits them
- No set-up charge and no joining fee, at any point
- Renewal handled automatically, or off with a toggle
- Several sites in one account from the Turbo tier upward
- The inbound move handled by our own engineers rather than a plugin, free
- Plan changes applied in place, with no migration and no cutover
- NVMe drives under all plans rather than the dear ones only
Frequently Asked
Questions we field again and again
Which endings have the worst renewal jump?
The ones marketed hardest on a first-year price. .store, .online and .tech all register for very little and renew at many times that. .xyz runs a discounted first year with a standard renewal beside it. .com and the Nominet endings — .co.uk, .uk, .org.uk — are the steady ones. The renewal column tells you this in ten seconds.
Is the ICANN fee added on top?
No. Generic endings carry a mandatory ICANN fee of about $0.18 a year, and it is already inside both the registration and the renewal figures shown here. Nothing further is added at checkout, and there is no set-up charge on the hosting side either.
Does transferring a name in reset its price?
It sets the price you pay us, not the price the registry charges. A standard gTLD transfer adds a full year on top of whatever term remains, charged at the ordinary renewal rate — free on most popular endings. What it cannot do is make a dear ending cheap, because that figure comes from the registry.
How do I find out what my current registrar will charge next year?
Look for the renewal column on their pricing table. If there is only one price, that is the answer: the second figure exists and they have chosen not to show it. Then check your own name in their client area — the renewal rate for an existing registration should be visible there, not on request.
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