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Hosting & Domain
Domain registration and web hosting providers. What you can take with you: Full DNS control and a working transfer path — your domain isn't locked to one registrar.
| Tool | Free plan | Starting price | Data export | API | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | $3.99/mochecked 19-09 | Full export | Limited | A fit for new WordPress sites that want a free first-year domain bundled in, provided they're willing to commit to the 36-month term to get the $3.99/mo Starter rate rather than the $9.99/mo it renews at. | |
| — | $10.44/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for site owners who want zero markup on renewals — Cloudflare passes through the roughly $10.44/yr registry cost for .com with no added margin — provided they're fine managing the domain from a Cloudflare account rather than a dedicated registrar dashboard. | |
| TRIAL New-signup promotional credit only (amount varies by current offer); no permanent free planchecked 19-09 | $4/mochecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for developers who want root-level control of a VM starting at $4/mo, provided they're comfortable managing their own server stack instead of a managed-hosting panel. | |
| — | $2.89/mochecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for buyers who want SSH access on every shared plan and no long-term contract, provided they accept the $10.99/mo renewal that kicks in after the $2.89/mo first year regardless of monthly or annual billing. | |
| — | $5.99/mochecked 19-09 | Full export | Limited | A fit for buyers who want domain and hosting on one long-established platform, provided they're comfortable prepaying a 3-year term for the $5.99/mo Economy rate and reading the 2026 Terms of Service, which now classify all accounts as business customers with commercial-arbitration disputes. | |
| — | $2.99/mochecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for budget-conscious solo sites willing to prepay 48 months at $2.99/mo to lock in the rate, provided they're comfortable with the $10.99/mo renewal once that term ends. | |
| — | $12.99/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for buyers who want a documented REST API for DNS automation, provided they plan around the renewal jump — name.com's .com is $12.99/yr the first year and $17.99/yr after that. | |
| — | $6.79/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | Limited | A fit for buyers who don't mind a first-year-only promo price — Namecheap's .com is $6.79/yr for new customers, listed against a $14.98/yr reference rate — provided they plan to confirm the actual renewal price before their second year. | |
| — | $17.29/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for buyers who value one flat $17.29/yr price for both registering and renewing a .com domain, provided they're fine paying more upfront than bulk-discount programs would require — NameSilo's Discount Program can lower this to $7.75-$11.05/yr for large portfolios. | |
| — | $11.08/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for buyers who want flat, no-surprise pricing — Porkbun's .com registers and renews at the same $11.08/yr — provided they're comfortable with no permanent free tier and managing things through Porkbun's REST API or dashboard rather than a bundled full-service host. | |
| — | $2.99/mochecked 19-09 | Full export | — | A fit for buyers who want managed hosting with monthly billing and full manual file/database export if they leave, provided they budget for a steep renewal jump once the discounted first term ends — SiteGround doesn't publish a public customer API. | |
| — | $8.88/mo, billed annuallychecked 19-09 | Full export + API | REST | A fit for buyers who want flat domain pricing close to wholesale — Spaceship's .com renews at $9.98/yr, only slightly above the $8.88/yr first-year rate — provided they're comfortable using a newer registrar (launched 2023) backed by Namecheap's infrastructure. |