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GoDaddy pricing, price hikes and cheaper alternatives

GoDaddy (godaddy.com) is a domain, DNS or SSL provider. Each .com domain is priced per year, with a discounted first-year registration and a higher standard renewal, plus a small ICANN fee.. No free plan.

What GoDaddy costs

  • 1 .com domain: $1.93/mo (Standard renewal $22.99/yr (domainoffer.net) + $0.20 ICANN fee added on top = $23.19/yr; WHOIS privacy is free on renewal (+$0); $23.19 / 12 = $1.9325, stored as $1.93.)
  • DNS, 5 domains: no public price (Not verified: no GoDaddy Premium DNS price found (official pages blocked; G2 lists no price; a $4.99 figure on fitgap has no plan or billing period; a 2011 article's $2.99/mo is too old). Left null.)
  • 1 SSL certificate: no public price (Not verified: no GoDaddy SSL product price found (a 2022 guide gives only a generic $5-$50/yr range and an undated $8/yr teaser naming no product). Left null.)

Plan compared: 1-year renewal of one existing .com domain, incl. $0.20 ICANN fee (WHOIS privacy free on renewal). 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.

What GoDaddy does

Core: Domain registration, Hosting & email bundles, WordPress management (partly), No-code website builder (partly).

Important: Broad TLD coverage, Free WHOIS privacy, DNS hosting (partly), Many sites per plan, Email on your domain (partly), Staging sites (partly), Automated site backups (partly), Firewall & malware protection (partly), 24/7 expert support (partly).

Also has: Transparent renewal pricing (partly), Bulk portfolio management (partly), Domain security locks (partly), DNSSEC (partly), API & infrastructure as code (partly), Free automated SSL (partly), OV & EV certificates, Wildcard & multi-domain certs, Certificate lifecycle management (partly), URL & email forwarding (partly), Aftermarket & auctions, Team access & roles (partly), Mobile app (partly), AI site generation (partly), SSH, Git & WP-CLI (partly), Store-ready performance (partly), Non-WordPress sites & apps (partly), VPS & cloud upgrades (partly), Agency & reseller tools (partly).

GoDaddy price hikes

No price hikes on record for GoDaddy.

Cheaper alternatives to GoDaddy

At 1 .com domain at renewal, GoDaddy costs $1.93/mo. 3 domain, DNS or SSL providers cost less:

  • Cloudflare Registrar: $0.87/mo (Standard .com renewal at Cloudflare's at-cost price of $10.46/yr (tracker figure), with WHOIS redaction free.), covers 82% of GoDaddy; missing or partial: Hosting & email bundles (partly), Bulk portfolio management, OV & EV certificates, Aftermarket & auctions
  • Amazon Route 53: $1.33/mo (Pay-as-you-go .com standard renewal ($16 a year)), covers 68% of GoDaddy; missing or partial: Hosting & email bundles, Free WHOIS privacy (partly), Bulk portfolio management, OV & EV certificates, URL & email forwarding
  • Namecheap: $1.56/mo (One .com domain at list renewal ($18.48/yr plus $0.20 ICANN fee; WHOIS privacy free), divided by 12.), covers 83% of GoDaddy; missing or partial: Staging sites, Firewall & malware protection, Aftermarket & auctions (partly), Mobile app, AI site generation

GoDaddy alternatives: 3 cheaper domain, DNS or SSL providers compared, at every size.

Other kinds of products that cover part of GoDaddy

  • Hostinger (Web & WordPress hosting): covers 72% of GoDaddy; missing or partial: Free WHOIS privacy (partly), Bulk portfolio management, DNSSEC, OV & EV certificates, Wildcard & multi-domain certs
  • Vercel (Hosting): covers 68% of GoDaddy; missing or partial: Hosting & email bundles (partly), Free WHOIS privacy (partly), Bulk portfolio management, DNSSEC, OV & EV certificates

Sources

Pricing page: godaddy.com/domains. Prices last checked Oct 16, 2026. GoDaddy's own pricing pages returned HTTP 403 and archive.org could not be fetched, so the .com price rests on one third-party page (domainoffer.net, which states prices updated Oct 17, 2026) and is unverified against GoDaddy. No dated post-2020 domain price increase was found, and the $2.99 first-year promo code is excluded.