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.ie vs .com address

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  • 24-01-2011 4:51pm
    #1
    RoyalMarine
    Closed Accounts Posts: 5,824 ✭✭✭


    Hi, im interested in registering a domain, but im wondering why a .ie address costs €19.99 while a .com address costs €4.99?


    and finally why does it cost more than double to take a domain for 2 years?

    1 year domain is €19.99
    while 2 years is €45.90


    any response would be great!

    cheers.


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    #2
    seamus
    Registered Users Posts: 68,317 ✭✭✭✭seamus


    The cost of the .ie domain is set by the IEDR. Blacknight then have to charge that onto the customer, with the appropriate profit margin.

    Blacknight have to pay a lot more for a .ie domain than a .com domain, hence why the customer has to pay more.

    The 1 year/2 year things look like a slight oversight.

    €19.99 is a current special offer for the .ie domain, which has a usual price of €25/year. So ordinarily €45 for two years would represent a saving of €5.


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    #3
    mneylon
    Registered Users Posts: 7,739 ✭✭✭mneylon


    The .ie registry is much more manual than .com, so it costs us a lot more to process a .ie domain name than it does to process a .com. This is both in terms of the wholesale price we pay for the domain name, as well as the overheads associated with processing the order.

    At present we are running a special discount on the 1st year's registration

    Our other domain and hosting offers may be found here: http://domainoffers.me/

    HTH

    Michele

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