Cheapest on-going Domain Name

[Sir Topham Hatt]

Hello

 

I registered a domain name a few years back, which is mysurname.me - I use it as a front for my web space (I have nothing on the web space but it's free) but do use it for emails, so everyone emails [email protected] to reach me (although it forwards to Outlook, I have set Outlook up to send from the same address, so it should look like I don't use Outlook at all).

 

It's come up for renewal but for 5 years, it's about $94.

Annoyingly, new registrations for the first year are just $4.

 

I should add, I can't do anything like (if my surname was smith) smi.th or whatever as the last two letters of my surname are associated with a country that isn't particularly favourable in the world.  Plus, I think it would be too complicated to tell people - it's already complicated enough 😛

 

Are there any other domain names I should consider that are fairly cheap and would be cheap as an on-going thing?

I can't use .com as that's taken by a company that shares my surname.

Or perhaps I should just bite the bullet and pay the $94 (which is £70 - £14 a year) - they don't do more than 5 years, which is a shame.  The first time I registered a .com address, it was for something like 10 years I'm sure.

Edited March 1, 2022 by Sir Topham Hatt

[Brandon H Supervisor]

Honestly $94 for 5 years isn't too bad a price I don't think.