Two things: Renewals are how registrars make money. They assume that once you register a domain for cheap, you will want to keep it. The money they lose on the registration is more than recouped by gouging you for renewals. Use a website like https://tld-list.com/tld/tech to compare prices and get a better deal. Donuts registered a very, very, very large number of TLDs. Each costs them $250k per year to maintain. They need to recoupe operational costs, so they slap a premium tag on as many domains as they can and charge you extra for it. Donuts is not the only registry that does this. The .co registry thinsk anything 4 characters or shorter is premium. .site, .host, etc all charge extra for <= 3 characters. If your domain is not premium, you should not be paying $50 for a .tech - going rate should be ~$20 +/- $5. More on reddit.com

The catch is, these numbers are about lowball averages and servers are about available resources. This is shared hosting, so if one of your sites starts taking off and spiking the CPU and memory, they will try and make you upgrade to a dedicated server with more resources or shut you down completely. Now, you can certainly do this approach and move them as they grow. Just be prepared. I've had blog posts go viral and shut down by 1&1, ICDsoft, and more. Never register your domains with the server company so you can easily move them to another host. More on reddit.com

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