How We Compare Domain Prices
HostList compares publicly advertised domain prices. You register, renew or transfer your domain directly with the provider. HostList doesn't sell domains or take payment for them.
Sources and eligibility
Openprovider's prices come from its public non-member extension tables. AI Vikings supplies a public price cache, and Porkbun offers a public pricing API that needs no credentials. OpusDNS transfer promotions come from its public pricing page and keep their business-only restriction. Its full dashboard and account API prices are not presented here as public retail offers.
Terms, fees and currencies
Prices are displayed in USD as published by each source. We don't convert currencies. Where a billing period is supplied, we show the total for that period; where it's missing, we say so. Tax inclusion, additional fees and transfer renewal benefits aren't consistently stated by these sources, so check the provider's checkout before you pay.
Freshness and missing data
Public sources are cached for one hour. We check expiry again when serving the page, and hide quotes more than 24 hours after retrieval. AI Vikings quotes also expire 48 hours after the provider's generation timestamp. Dated promotions expire at the recorded cutoff. If a source fails or an amount can't be validated, the cell links to the provider instead of showing zero.
Order and commercial links
Providers appear in a fixed order. There is no cheapest-provider badge because billing periods, eligibility and final fees differ. Links go straight to providers without affiliate tracking. This comparison covers four providers, not the entire domain market.
What this comparison does not cover
Quotes are not promises of domain availability. Premium domains, aftermarket purchases, restoration charges, optional services and account-specific discounts sit outside this comparison. We don't publish a multi-year ownership estimate when its inputs are incomplete.
Source pages
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