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4 articles on domains from the Dracon blog — data-anchored editorial on AI providers, games, music, and the tools we ship.

  1. Infrastructure The renewal trap, ranked: year-1 → year-2 jumps at 12 domain registrars The first year is marketing; the second year is the price. We ranked all 12 registrars in our captured catalog by their .com renewal jump, from IONOS's +1900% to Cloudflare's 0%.
  2. Infrastructure What the exchange rate does to your domain bill: EUR registrars in USD clothing A €10.07 renewal is not a $10.07 renewal. How ignoring the euro/dollar rate misranks European registrars by ~7%, and what fixed ranking looks like.
  3. Infrastructure The hidden ICANN fee: who includes the $0.18 and who tacks it on Every gTLD registration carries a mandatory $0.18/year ICANN fee. Whether it's already inside the listed price depends entirely on the registrar, and checkout is where you find out.
  4. Infrastructure Free first year = infinite markup: promo domains, dissected A $0 or $1 first year renders as a 0% 'renewal hike' on most comparison sites. The worst promos look like the best deals anywhere on the internet. Here is the math that fixes it.