Hello! We have great news for all of you!
Thanks to a partnership with Hover.com we can offer you an amazing deal.
When you upgrade to a paid plan in Yclas.com you get a 1 year free .shop domain name or a 50% discount on .com / .net / .org domain name for the first year.
You will get a voucher to redeem at hover as soon as you pay. Check your email!
After the first year: what your domain really costs, and how to connect it
A free or half-price first year is a good start. But you will renew your domain every year for as long as your site runs, so the renewal price matters more than the first-year deal. Some extensions are cheap to register and expensive to renew. The table below shows at-cost prices in US dollars from Cloudflare Registrar, which charges registry prices with no markup. The prices are as tracked by the independent site cfdomainpricing.com in early October 2026. Registrars that add their own margin usually charge more, so treat these as about the lowest prices you are likely to pay.
| Extension | First year | Each renewal | Good for |
|---|---|---|---|
| .com | $10.46 | $10.46 | Almost any marketplace. It is the extension people type by default. |
| .net | $11.86 | $11.86 | A fallback when the .com is taken |
| .org | $8.50 | $11.20 | Community or non-profit boards |
| .shop | $30.20 | $30.20 | Buy-and-sell sites |
| .store | $4.99 | $42.20 | Cheap to start, but the most expensive here to keep |
| .online | $4.99 | $27.70 | Same pattern: a low first year, then high renewals |
| .co | $30.00 | $30.00 | Short brandable names |
So a free first-year .shop is worth about $30 at cost, but after that it costs about three times as much as a .com every year. If your .com is available, it is usually the better long-term choice, even at half price for the first year. Whatever you choose, turn on auto-renew. A classifieds site whose domain lapses loses its search rankings and its sellers' links overnight.
Connecting the domain to your Yclas site
All paid Yclas plans include your own domain with SSL (see pricing). The panel's Use your own domain page walks you through about 15 minutes of setup:
- Buy the domain from any registrar (or with your voucher).
- Add the domain to a free Cloudflare account, and set the two Cloudflare name servers at your registrar.
- In Cloudflare DNS, delete any existing A records for the domain and for
www. Then add aCNAMErecord for the domain pointing toyclas.ovh, plus an optionalwwwCNAME pointing to your domain. Both must be proxied (orange cloud). - In Cloudflare's SSL/TLS settings, choose Flexible.
- Back in Yclas, enter the domain without www, press Test domain, then switch your site to it.
DNS changes can take up to 48 hours to spread. Yclas checks that the domain points to it before letting you switch, so a failed test usually just means waiting a little longer.
As always we are trying to improve our offering and make your life as easier as possible.
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