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The original was posted on /r/sysadmin by /u/i0n1ze on 2024-01-24 12:10:40+00:00.

Registrar prices are getting out of control these days. I own a .com domain name, that I used to pay ~11€/year back when I first acquired it in ~2016.

My renewal bill just came in today, and it’s 22.80€. Basically the price doubled in the span of 8 years.

I know that, being yearly, it isn’t that big of a deal, and when you put it in perspective with the inflation in electricity and server components prices, the increase might be justified.

But still, I solely use that domain name for my blog, that I generate 0 revenue with. Also, I manage my own DNS and don’t rely on the registrar for name resolution.

So I was wondering if there were registrars that only let you set a domain delegation in exchange of a reduced annual renewal cost ? Technically they would be just handling a SOA, NS and A record, so they would receive lesser traffic than managing the whole zone, which can reflect in reduced infrastructure costs.