Digital sovereignty begins with your name.
For more than two decades, Earthgrid has sold domain names and hosting, with 24/7 telephone support for this department.
Plenty of companies do that. What matters is one key difference, and it’s the one most people only find out about too late.
Our domains run on Secure Server, through a white-label relationship with the largest domain registrar on the planet.
We don’t add a markup, unlike other registrars. The pricing is comparable to the big names you already know.
The most important one is the first one. The domain is registered to you, not to us, and it stays that way.
Some companies (we won’t name names) sell you a domain for $1 just to get your business.
I know this because I have a friend who does it. He opens a new account for every domain, each with a different email, phone number and credit card.
If this is you, chances are you aren’t a fit for this community.
Here’s why those companies sell a domain for a dollar. It’s never about the domain.
Here’s what most people don’t know. We’re a reseller on Secure Server, the platform run by the largest registrar on the planet.
The lowest price we’re allowed to sell a domain for is $11.99. Nobody sells it to us for a dollar.
So who can sell you a domain for $1? Only the company that owns the platform. It competes with its own resellers, and loses money on year one on purpose.
Our view: that’s a racket. A cheap first year fills the pipeline, and every forgotten renewal becomes auction inventory.
That’s the rub. You pay for that dollar on the back end, or you lose the name.
Our renewal price isn’t a surprise. No teaser year, no jump in year two.
The auction timeline is published on their own help pages.
Almost nobody reads them. Now you have.
This is how the trap works. You buy a package that includes a domain with “hosting.”
They charge $100 or $200 a year for the hosting, and they register the name in their name, not yours.
Cancel the hosting or move to another host, and they keep your name. Then they sell it at auction.
Check yours today: look up who is listed as the owner (the registrant) of your domain. If it isn’t you, it’s time to move it.
So transfer your domains to us, or register a new one. Either way, the name is yours.
Every domain transfer includes an extra year of domain and DNS.
Search for your name and register it to you, at a fair price.
Make sure it belongs to you, not to a hosting company that will auction it away the day you change things up.
Viktor, Earthgrid AI