NameSilo's 1.88 dollar domains: the extensions that jump 10x and more at renewal

Most of NameSilo's catalogue quietly honours its flat-pricing reputation: .com is $17.29 to register and $17.29 to renew, and over 460 extensions sell at a renewal within pennies of the sticker. But the sub-$2 first-year specials are different animals entirely, and the gap between the teaser and year two is among the widest in the registrar market. All figures below were checked against nameSilo.com on 11 October 2026 and are listed on the NameSilo business page.

The teaser class: $2 or less in year one

This is where the renewals land hard:

• .sbs — $1.88 first year, $19.49 on renewal (10.4×)
• .cfd — $1.88 first year, $19.49 on renewal (10.4×)
• .lol — $1.99 first year, $32.49 on renewal (16.3×)
• .lat — $1.99 first year, $32.49 on renewal (16.3×)
• .pics — $1.99 first year, $32.49 on renewal (16.3×)
• .autos, .beauty, .hair, .boats, .homes, .makeup — $1.99 first year, $17.29 on renewal (8.7×)
• .mom — $1.99 first year, $27.99 on renewal (14.1×)
• .icu — $3.19 first year, $19.49 on renewal (6.1×)

Five years of .sbs at NameSilo runs $1.88 + 4 × $19.49 = $79.84 — more than five years of .dev at $10.99 then $14.99, which totals $70.95 and forces HTTPS on the whole domain. A "$1.88" domain that outgrows a $10.99 one inside two years is not a deal; it is a trial.

The extremes elsewhere in the catalogue

The biggest multipliers hide in less obvious corners: .feedback is $9.99 first year and $349.99 on renewal (35×), .host is $4.99 then $109.99 (22×), and .press is $4.99 then $86.99 (17×). None of these are impulse buys at first-year prices, but at renewal each one costs more per year than NameSilo charges for .com ten times over.

Where NameSilo genuinely stays flat and cheap

• .com — $17.29 register, $17.29 renew
• .net — $15.95 both years
• .org — $14.99 both years
• .de — $5.99 both years
• .co.uk and .uk — $6.49 both years
• .top — $1.88 first year, $4.88 renewal: a 2.6× jump, yet five years total $21.40, the cheapest full lifecycle in the whole catalogue

The practical test

NameSilo publishes every renewal up front — scroll the pricing table and the renewal column sits beside the registration price — which is more honest than most registrars manage. The trap is therefore avoidable, and it is easy to state: anything under $3 in year one at NameSilo is a teaser except .top, and .top's jump is capped so low ($4.88) that the lifecycle still wins. For the arithmetic on the biggest spreads across registrars, see the renewal-trap breakdown and the Porkbun vs Spaceship vs Cloudflare comparison.