[grogs]

If you've ever bought a domain then you'll know that there are a number of providers, each with their own prices and pricing structures. I was surprised to find there isn't a price comparison website for domains, so I built one.

Hopefully it's something that would be useful to people on HN. Whilst building it, I realised I could have saved $20 on the .io domain I bought recently.

Any feedback would be much appreciated. The immediate plan is to show the prices for domain renew and transfer.

[btipling]

Is this data scraped via an API or something or are you managing it manually?

[grogs]

It's automated. With around 500 TLDs and 7 providers, manually maintaining it would be a nightmare.

[maxcellent]

not sure if this is the case for all domain providers, but at least for name cheap: transfer and renew price are quite different from the new price. Also, different contract will have different prices. Longer terms will normally be discounted. It will be nice to display prices based on different use cases.

Anyways! Great work! I wish this can be maintained up-to-date. So many bullshits / price traps on domain registration.