Domain Prices Are Going Up: Renewing Early Locks Today's Price

.com prices rise on November 1, 2026. .net follows on March 1, 2027. Both are registry increases, and our prices go up with them.

A renewal is priced at the moment it is processed. Every year you add before those dates is charged at today’s rate, so a five-year renewal in October buys five years at the current price.

Why the price is going up

Every .com in the world is sold through a single registry, at the same price to every registrar. There is no second supplier and nothing to negotiate. The price is set by the registry’s contract with ICANN, and the same contract permits further increases in each of the next few years.

So this is not a one-off to be dodged once. Renewing for several years is the only lever any customer has, and it works for as long a term as you buy.

What renewing early does

• The rate is fixed when the transaction goes through, and it applies to every year that transaction buys. The same renewal a day later costs the new rate for all of them.
• It applies to new registrations and transfers in, not only renewals. If you were already planning to move a domain to us, before November 1 is the cheaper side of the date.
• Years are added to your existing expiry, not counted from today. A domain expiring in July 2027, renewed for two years this week, expires in July 2029. Nothing is lost.
• Ten years is the maximum, counted from the date of the transaction. A domain already paid through to 2029 can take seven more. If the renewal screen is not offering the term you want, tell us and we will set it up.

How many years to buy

• The domain your business runs on. The one carrying your website and email. Five years or more, since this is the name whose loss would cost you the most.
• Names you hold defensively. Misspellings, the .net of your .com, the variants nobody should be able to take. These are cost with no upside, so buy the long term and forget them.
• Established names with history. Anything with years of links and traffic pointing at it. Registering something similar is not a replacement.
• Anything you are still deciding about. One year. Prepaid registration is not refundable, and a name you pay five years ahead for and drop in eighteen months is a name you paid more to abandon.

The other reason to renew long

A long term also removes the most common way a business loses a domain: a missed renewal. An expired card, a billing address nobody reads anymore, a notice caught by a spam filter. Because the domain carries the website and the email, both go down on the same day.

Auto-renew on a current card prevents most of this and is on by default. A multi-year term prevents it for the length of the term. Our guide to what happens when a domain expires covers what recovery costs once it has happened, which is considerably more than a renewal.

What this does not change

• Other extensions. .org, .io, .co, .uk and the rest are run by their own registries on their own schedules. These two dates are .com and .net only. Current prices for all of them are on the pricing page.
• Domains already paid past the dates. If your .com runs to 2028, nothing happens to it on November 1. The new price applies to the next transaction.
• The domain itself. No settings change, no DNS to edit, no downtime. This is a line on an invoice.

What to do before November 1

• Open your client area and sort your domains by expiry date.
• Renew the ones you are confident about, for as long a term as you want to prepay.
• Leave the uncertain ones on one year.
• Set a reminder for February 2027 and do the same for .net.

If you would rather not work through the list alone, send it to us. We will tell you which domains are worth a long term, which to leave on one year, and what it costs before you commit to anything.