Domain, DNS or SSL providers compared: prices and price hikes
Domain registrars, managed DNS hosts and SSL/TLS certificate authorities compared by what a .com really costs at renewal, what DNS for a handful of domains costs, what a certificate costs, and which capabilities each alternative actually replaces.
Prices at 1 .com domain at renewal
- Cloudflare Registrar: $0.87/mo · last hike May 2026
- Amazon Route 53: $1.33/mo · last hike Jul 2026
- Namecheap: $1.56/mo · last hike Sep 2023
- GoDaddy: $1.93/mo
- Let's Encrypt: not offered
Prices are USD per month: the headline is one .com domain at its yearly renewal price (not the first-year promo), with contact privacy and any required account plan, divided by 12. We also price managed DNS for 5 domains registered elsewhere at 5 million queries a month and one single-domain SSL certificate for a year divided by 12; a product that does not do a job shows no price for it.