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Biggest jumps at renewal first year, then the renewal at the same shop

  1. .dealer $4.99 $2473.00 ×496
  2. .nl $0.11 $29.04 ×264
  3. .tech $0.31 $43.24 ×139

GKG, priced and judged.

GKG has the cheapest renewal on 2 of its 29 tracked TLDs. On a typical one its renewal costs less than at 84% of the shops that sell it, and 31% more than at the cheapest. Every price below is fetched from GKG's own published list on 1 Nov.

Extensions where it is the cheapest of 147 shops

Register0 Renew2 Transfer3

Checked

Base
College Station, US
Privacy
not independently verified
Accepts
not verified
Expiry handling
neutral — unproven · lifecycle reviewed · pre-release disposition not proven · source ↗
Our verdict

A smaller US registrar with unusually explicit operation and term tables. The catalogue is narrow, but every included extension has independently published first-year registration, renewal and transfer pricing, with the ICANN fee folded into Domain.Guru's payable total.

Where it wins
  • Separate public registration, renewal and transfer fragments
  • One- through five-year bands make term pricing explicit
  • Automatic first-year offers are shown beside the crossed regular amount
Where it costs you
  • Only a few dozen extensions are sold
  • Privacy, payment and EU tax details still need first-party verification
  • No machine-readable promo expiry is published
Registrar honesty
84/100 registrar honesty score · rubric

transparency base 84/100 evidence observed 69/70 pre-release policy 0

Renewal shown upfront 30/30
Clean cart, no preselectsnot checked 15/30 neutral
No forced multi-year terms 20/20
Public, stable pricing 19/20

69/70 points are observed. Unobserved: checkout defaults. Each uses a disclosed neutral half-score in the fixed 100-point base; it creates neither a bonus nor a failure. Read the rubric.

Expired-domain handling 0 pts
neutral — unproven lifecycle reviewed · pre-release disposition not proven

The official source describes grace, redemption or deletion, but does not explicitly rule out a registrar pre-release sale. A generic lifecycle is context, not proof, so this remains neutral.

official lifecycle · checked 2026-08-30 ↗

Renewal price changes

checked daily since 2 Sep

No renewal price at GKG moved by 2% or more and held.

Prices in another currency are compared in that currency, so exchange-rate swings don't count; a day we changed how we read this shop's list is a new baseline, not a move.

Full price list

GKG vs the market's best renewal
29 TLDs in this price list
TLD Register Renew Transfer vs market best compare
.COM $10.99 then $13.19/yr · promo $13.19 $10.99 +32%
.NET $13.16 then $13.16/yr $13.16 $12.06 +23%
.ORG $12.63 then $12.63/yr $12.63 $11.63 +29%
.IO $59.85 then $59.85/yr $59.85 $59.85 +22%
.SH $59.85 then $59.85/yr $59.85 $59.85 +33%
.TV $34.99 then $34.99/yr $34.99 $34.99 +40%
.BIZ $13.17 then $13.17/yr $13.17 $11.18 +2%
.TOP $7.37 then $7.37/yr $7.37 $7.37 +94%
.US $8.66 then $8.66/yr $8.66 $7.53 +34%
.CC $14.99 then $14.99/yr $14.99 $14.99 +87%
.AC $59.85 then $59.85/yr $59.85 $59.85 +33%
.ARCHI $84.28 then $84.28/yr $84.28 $84.28 +31%
.BET $37.91 then $37.91/yr $37.91 $37.91 +156%
.BIO $67.50 then $67.50/yr $67.50 $67.50 +26%
.BLACK $45.60 then $45.60/yr $45.60 $45.60 +7%
.BLUE $21.63 then $21.63/yr $21.63 $21.63 +31%
.GREEN $60.17 then $60.17/yr $60.17 $60.17 +7%
.KIM $21.57 then $21.57/yr $21.57 $21.57 +44%
.NAME $9.17 then $9.17/yr $9.17 $7.13 +39%
.ORGANIC $60.17 then $60.17/yr $60.17 $60.17 best on market
.PET $35.69 then $35.69/yr $35.69 $35.69 +141%
.PINK $21.63 then $21.63/yr $21.63 $21.63 +31%
.POKER $35.22 then $70.27/yr · promo $70.27 $35.22 +38%
.PROMO $15.63 then $22.26/yr · promo $22.26 $15.63 +23%
.RED $21.63 then $21.63/yr $21.63 $21.63 +31%
.SHIKSHA $14.37 then $14.37/yr $14.37 $14.37 best on market
.SKI $48.48 then $48.48/yr $48.48 $48.48 +4%
.VOTE $78.00 then $78.00/yr $78.00 $78.00 +39%
.VOTO $70.22 then $70.22/yr $70.22 $70.22 +30%
29 live · verified rows only · what that means · green = lowest renewal on the market · promo prices marked · ×N = renewal step-up · affiliate links, where present, are marked and never affect this table

FAQ

GKG, answered
Is GKG cheap for domains?
GKG currently has the lowest renewal price on 2 of the 29 extensions we track for it. A smaller US registrar with unusually explicit operation and term tables. The catalogue is narrow, but every included extension has independently published first-year registration, renewal and transfer pricing, with the ICANN fee folded into Domain.Guru's payable total.
Does GKG include WHOIS privacy?
We have not independently verified whether GKG includes, charges for or supports WHOIS privacy. Unknown is not treated as paid.
Does GKG auction expired domains?
The expiry-handling review was completed 2026-08-30, but the evidence remains inconclusive. The official source describes grace, redemption or deletion, but does not explicitly rule out a registrar pre-release sale. A generic lifecycle is context, not proof, so this remains neutral. This is neutral in the registrar honesty score: no bonus and no penalty.
What is GKG's registrar honesty score?
84/100. The fixed transparency base is 84/100, with 69/70 points directly observed, and the verified pre-release-policy adjustment is 0. Unobserved criteria (checkout defaults) use disclosed neutral half-scores; they are neither normalized away nor treated as failures. Current market wins are reported separately. The full rubric is on our method page.