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About $50/year on initial registration, but that's because .coms were so expensive then / seemed expensive / didn't find cheaper options. Then $10 / year. And
by zhte415 10y ago
About $50/year on initial registration, but that's because .coms were so expensive then / seemed expensive / didn't find cheaper options.
Then $10 / year. And now $15 / year on a registrar I trust with security a fair bit more.
Reason for a change in paying a little more for a much better (perceived, at least) service was I started getting mails from someone with the (almost same) name suggesting I 'give' him my domain name (and Twitter, and Gmail, and LinkedIn, etc). Give him. As 'I was not using it'. Despite having it as primary email address for ~15 years and a small placeholder page for namecard, logins, ssh, personal projects, cloud hosting, etc. Persistent, timed emails, every 6 months or so. And he was in SEO so perhaps somewhat cluefull of dark arts, so move to a non-cheapest registrar.
If you're on the reverse, check your registrar is providing a secure service, for example passwords not (or seeming to be, based on login hints), in plain text.