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Would $15 be considered "low-cost" in the domain market?

* They are the people who own common last names as URLs and sell josh@finnie.com for $35 a year too!

The $15 includes free whois privacy. For GoDaddy that's an extra 7 or 8 dollars (last time I checked) on top of their 11.99 domain cost. Hover also has excellent customer service and 0 upsell. I'm sure you can find cheaper registrants out there but Hover is the very definition of a customer focused company.

Whois privacy makes the registrar the legal owner of your domain, not you. I'm not OK with that. http://www.circleid.com/pdf/solidhostnamecheap.pdf

Whois privacy is worthless. For the most part, it's pretty clear who owns the domain if you actually visit the website.

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