All about Discount Domains: Ownership, domain prices, reviews and more
Domain Compare gives you the facts about some of New Zealand’s biggest and best-known providers of domain names. Read on to discover who owns Discount Domains, how they are rated by customers, and more.
What do .nz domains cost at Discount Domains?
As you can see on our home page, Discount Domains are far from the cheapest option - despite their name. As of September 2024, their regular price for a .nz domain is $38.95 per year. This is lower than the median price.
They also offer web hosting, and some of those packages include a domain name.
Who owns Discount Domains?
Discount Domains was founded in 2003. Within five years it had joined up with Digiweb, which was absorbed into a company called Umbrellar in 2015. This brought it into the same stable as Freeparking, which went through an international buy-out in 2020.
Today the “Freeparking Group” is a division of Dreamscape Networks, which also owns Crazy Domains. That makes it part of an American giant called Newfold Digital, previously known as Web.com. To un-complicate things from there, let’s just say that this was all part of a multi-billion dollar private equity deal. While Discount Domains started out as a New Zealand-owned company, those days are long gone.
What do ratings and reviews say about Discount Domains?
As of September 2024 Discount Domains has these ratings:
- Trustpilot: 2.0 / 5, which is classified as “Poor”.
- Website Planet: 4.2 stars, a ranking of 1665 out of 3859 competitors.
- No Google reviews.
- No user ratings on WHTop.
Is Discount Domains a registrar or reseller of .nz domains?
The Domain Name Commission lists Discount Domains as a registrar, under the name “Freeparking Ltd t/a Discount Domains”.
Learn the difference between domain registrars and resellers.
Is Discount Domains on social media?
Currently inactive. The last time Discount Domains posted on Facebook or Twitter (as X was called at the time) was 2021.
Where does Discount Domains report outages?
If there’s a Discount Domains outage, their website has a ‘Network Status’ page where you ought to be able to find details (so long as their website is still up).