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GoDaddy Launches Discount Club

Domain Registrar GoDaddy launches discount membership club.

The world’s largest domain name registrar, GoDaddy, has launched a membership club called Discount Domain Club that offers reduced pricing. The club costs $89.95 per year and provides a number of discounted services. The fee might make sense for you if you are a GoDaddy client who owns many domain names, or someone trying to consolidate domains that would prefer the security of GoDaddy compared to, say, RegisterFly.

The discounts include:

-Cheap domain registration. .Com domains are only $6.74, .net and .org $7.24 counting ICANN fee. Discounts apply to other extensions as well. The .com price is regarding $.25 less than Moniker’s best pricing on .coms, but is more expensive on the other extensions. It baffles me that .net pricing is more than .com since .com has a higher wholesale price. When wholesale .com and .net prices increase later this year you might see these discounted prices go up as well.

-80% payout level in GoDaddy’s CashParking program.

-Free membership to TDNAM and discounts on listing fees.

-Discounted domain buying service. (If you are a sophisticated domain investor with a lot of domains I doubt you would actually use GoDaddy’s domain buying service.)

If you own a lot of .com domains that are by now at GoDaddy, then this discount offer might make sense for you.

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