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GKG, priced and judged.

College Station, US
accepts: not verified
privacy: not independently verified
expiry handling: neutral — unproven · lifecycle reviewed · pre-release disposition not proven · 0 pts · source ↗
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Across 29 tracked TLDs, GKG's renewal prices average 37% above the market's best — and it has the lowest observed renewal on 3 of them. Every price below is fetched from GKG's own published list on 2026-09-16.

The verdict in prose

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 ↗
register0 renew3 transfer2

observed market wins · substituted transfer prices never count

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 +21%
.ORG $12.63 then $12.63/yr $12.63 $11.63 +25%
.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 best on market
.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 +20%
.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 +20%
.POKER $35.22 then $70.27/yr · promo $70.27 $35.22 +41%
.PROMO $15.63 then $22.26/yr · promo $22.26 $15.63 +23%
.RED $21.63 then $21.63/yr $21.63 $21.63 +20%
.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 +1%
.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 · 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 3 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.