Network Solutions also provide additional added features such as hosting, email service, parked domain, parked domain with ads for revenue service, etc etc. These are also features that other providers provide, but they are a well known and trusted name for domain names.
You can draw the same parallels with regards to Verisign's Secure Site Pro with Extended Validation which costs $1499 for 1 year and then compare that to Comodo's same certificate for $359 for one year or why 76 gas stations are usually 10-15 cents more per gallon than Arco, or why Arco charges $0.45 for using a debit card at the pump but BP doesn't charge an additional fee.
Name branding and name recognition has a lot to do with price.
Network Solutions also provide additional added features such as hosting, email service, parked domain, parked domain with ads for revenue service, etc etc. These are also features that other providers provide, but they are a well known and trusted name for domain names.
You can draw the same parallels with regards to Verisign's Secure Site Pro with Extended Validation which costs $1499 for 1 year and then compare that to Comodo's same certificate for $359 for one year or why 76 gas stations are usually 10-15 cents more per gallon than Arco, or why Arco charges $0.45 for using a debit card at the pump but BP doesn't charge an additional fee.
Name branding and name recognition has a lot to do with price.
Until you see the inside of an engine using a premium fuel vs one using shop-own-brandGas stations? It just makes sense to go where the price is lowest
Are you talking about their value-add services?For example places like GD are only cheap only if you're buying something else, and force your through 30 pages of upsell of overpriced junk to get registered.
It also has a lot to do with suckers.
But I think domain management is "simple" compared to web hosting, for instance. I understand that a lot of research should be done before you purchase a web hosting package, but it's just registering a domain name. What is the harm of doing it with
I notice that most domain registrars sell a .com domain at $10 - $15 a year, but why Network Solutions sells it at $34.99? What is the advantage of registering your domain on NS than it is on other registrars?