dot.tk has a melange of different free domains. Hard to beat free.
If it's still available in 10 years is the other question though.
It's a country tld, those tend to stay around.
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#12I'm from Namecheap. .PW is $78.80 for 10 years. .UK is $56.90 for 10 years. https://www.namecheap.com/domains/registration/results.aspx?...
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#13.trade domains are super cheap. I think i paid $8 for 5 years.
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#14Out of interest, is it the absolute amount of coin, or your desire to drive a bargain? because $27 is $5 per year, which I estimate you will afford by digging around the sofa for loose change. You don't need to know this. You want to know this. You will spend more money in opportunity cost finding out.
In the USA perhaps.
OP is from India, where median wage is ~$2 a day.
Saving $5 would equate to 2.5 days effort per domain.
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#16I paid my .tk ~60€ for 9 years. Renewed until 2024.
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#17dot.tk has a melange of different free domains. Hard to beat free.
IIRC that TLD well known for hijacking domains after they become popular.
That's fair: it is (at least, it was last time I checked) clearly stated that free domains are merely "lended" and you have no sort of right on that domain.
OTOH, you have full rights on domains you buy.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
If it's still available in 10 years is the other question though.
It's a country tld, those tend to stay around.
It's the TLD of the archipelago of Tokelau. They have a population of 1.400, their energy company provides 24-hour electricity "on special occasions", and they outsourced the TLD to a company I'd be ashamed to call a professional registrar. So country is a little guarantee.
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#19.ovh is 1.2€ (first year) + 3.6€/year (renewal price), so about $42/decade.
Interesting. I'm curious how that TLD was conceived. Surely it's for the host, right?
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#20Namecheap and others have sales on tlds from time to time. There are sites that will aggregate the prices and tlds https://tld-list.com/ is one. I know the last domains I bought were only a couple of dollars for 5 years.