Cloudflare vs IONOS
Across 20 TLDs both registrars sell, Cloudflare is cheaper on 19 over three years and IONOS on 1.
These two registrars price at opposite extremes, and the comparison is really a demonstration of how far apart first-year and renewal pricing can sit. IONOS sells a .com for $1.00 in year one and renews it at $20.00. Cloudflare charges $10.46 in every year, including the first. So IONOS is $9.46 cheaper to start and $9.54 more expensive every year afterwards; the crossover arrives in month thirteen. Over three years IONOS costs $41.00 and Cloudflare $31.38. Against the $10.44 true cost of a .com, Cloudflare's margin is two cents and IONOS's is 92%. The same shape repeats across the table: .org is $1.00 into $20.00 at IONOS against a flat $11.20 at Cloudflare, and .dev is $12.50 into $25.00 against a flat $12.20. IONOS is a substantial German company with hosting, email and cloud services, and if you are buying those anyway then account consolidation is a real convenience. The dollar first year is also genuinely useful if you are registering a name you may abandon. But Cloudflare's model, selling at cost because the domain is not the product, is structurally cheaper than any margin-taking registrar can be, and it does not rely on you forgetting to move the name before renewal. The constraint is that Cloudflare requires its own DNS and only sells TLDs it supports.
| Source | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| .com | $10.46 | $10.46 | $31.38 | $1.00 | $20.00 | $41.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .ai | $80.00 | $80.00 | $240.00 | $60.00 | $120.00 | $300.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .io | $50.00 | $50.00 | $150.00 | $40.99 | $90.00 | $220.99 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .dev | $12.20 | $12.20 | $36.60 | $12.50 | $25.00 | $62.50 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .org | $8.50 | $11.20 | $30.90 | $1.00 | $20.00 | $41.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .net | $11.86 | $11.86 | $35.58 | $5.00 | $20.00 | $45.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .co | $15.00 | $30.00 | $75.00 | $36.00 | $48.00 | $132.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .app | $14.20 | $14.20 | $42.60 | $12.00 | $25.00 | $62.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .xyz | $12.30 | $11.20 | $34.70 | $0.75 | $15.00 | $30.75 | IONOS | ↗ |
| .me | $16.56 | $16.56 | $49.68 | $1.00 | $25.00 | $51.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .cloud | $20.20 | $20.20 | $60.60 | $1.00 | $37.00 | $75.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .online | $27.70 | $27.70 | $83.10 | $1.20 | $48.00 | $97.20 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .site | $27.70 | $27.70 | $83.10 | $0.79 | $55.00 | $110.79 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .tech | $49.20 | $49.20 | $147.60 | $3.00 | $105.00 | $213.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .shop | $30.20 | $30.20 | $90.60 | $0.98 | $56.00 | $112.98 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .store | $42.20 | $42.20 | $126.60 | $1.47 | $84.00 | $169.47 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .info | $21.20 | $21.20 | $63.60 | $1.40 | $35.00 | $71.40 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .blog | $20.20 | $20.20 | $60.60 | $6.00 | $40.00 | $86.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .live | $25.20 | $25.20 | $75.60 | $4.03 | $46.00 | $96.03 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
| .studio | $31.20 | $31.20 | $93.60 | $22.00 | $40.00 | $102.00 | Cloudflare | ↗ |
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