Looking to save some money on your blog / site expenses? Great news! I recently received an email announcing that Namecheap Now Offers Privacy Protection for Life. What does that mean? Let me explain…
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Namecheap Now Offers Privacy Protection for Life
What Does This Mean for Me?
Saving moolah. And who doesn’t love that?
How Much Money Will I Save?
That varies on the extension you purchased (.com, .net, etc.). Different domains have different privacy protection fees. According to this page on Namecheap’s site, privacy protection (aka WhoIs Guard) can cost $2.99 – 7.99 per year.
According to the post where I did a breakdown on how much it costs to run a blog on WordPress:
Siteground (SG) only (year 1)
| SG: $3.95/month x 12 | $47.40 |
| SG: domain registration | $15.95 |
| SG: domain privacy | $12.00 |
| pay at setup | $75.35 |
| cost per month | $6.28 |
But if you use Siteground with Namecheap for your domain registration, you can save almost $20 per year*:
Siteground (SG) with Namecheap (NC) (year 1)
| SG: $3.95/month x 12 | $47.40 |
| NC: domain registration | $10.98 |
| NC: domain privacy | $0.00 |
| pay at setup | $58.38 |
| cost per month | $4.87 |
*Depending on which type of domain you register, of course – the above calculations were created using amounts found on each respective site on Sunday, July 1, 2018
TLDR: You’ll save $16.97 as of the writing of this post.
Where This Makes the Biggest Difference
If you’re anything like me, you want to lock your precious brand down. So if you have the .com of your desired blog URL, you may also want to get the .net, .org, .co, and other more popular extensions. Not because you want to use them but because you don’t want anyone else to. So, this is where your savings can really multiply.
If you bought 5 domain extension versions of your primary URL, you would save:
Domain + Privacy Protection Cost Table
| Siteground | Namecheap | SAVINGS | |
| .com | $27.95 | $10.98 | $16.97 |
| .org | $29.95 | $12.98 | $16.97 |
| .net | $29.95 | $12.98 | $16.97 |
| .co | $41.95 | $23.98 | $17.97 |
| .biz | $29.95 | $12.88 | $17.07 |
| Total savings | $85.95 |
This Is Great, But How Do I Do This?
If you haven’t started your blog yet, you can register/purchase your domain with Namecheap. I still recommend getting your hosting with Siteground.
Siteground offers two options when you have your domain with a different company. I usually use Siteground’s nameservers. Which in plain English means that I will look up the two nameservers in my Siteground account and go to Namecheap, “manage” my domain, and replace the Namecheap nameservers with the Siteground ones.
If this doesn’t make sense, let me know in a comment, and I’ll write a new post with screenshots and stuff for you. No problemo!
If you want to try it on your own, start with this Siteground help post and use the linked articles for further research.
I know…it sounds scary if you’re non-technical. But if you can send an email, you can do this!
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