As someone who has over 600 domains in my portfolio (since domaining is my hobby), I do have different needs on how do I purchase, or renew domains:
Initial domain purchase (registration):
- As I told you, the number of domains in my portfolio is huge, so fixing to one registrar is not an option for me, simply because one registrar doesn't have the cheapest prices for all tlds. That being said, I am using TLD-prices.com to find the cheapest registrar for selected TLD, with privacy protection included, and initially register the domain there.
Pre-expiration (renewal/transfer):
- Well, managing domains on multiple registrars is not something I would recommend to you. When expiration notice comes, there are quite emails coming your way. Since I've set the specific domain for those renewals, each registrar sends me renewal notices on
registrarname@domain.email, from which, email is forwarded to my GSuite Gmail and sorted out inside. From there, I find the TLD which I need to renew on tld-prices again, and compare it to several registrars: Dynadot, Sav.com, Epik.com, and Namecheap.com. The one that has the cheapest price for transfer and further renewals is my next choice for that domain.
Once the transfer is done, a domain is sitting on that registrar until the next cleanup phase (twice a year). At that time of the year, I review all my domains, see if there is any incoming traffic to that domain, and/or revenue off of it, and if there's a possibility to flip it. If not, the domain is set to manual renewal and dropped after the expiration date. Otherwise, auto-renewal is set and the domain is being renewed automatically.
So my suggest is: Dynadot, Namecheap, Epik and Sav.