Wow, this took me by surprise. I bought a site a year ago and the domain name was registered with eNom. Started a transfer from eNom about 90 days ago, never received a confirmation email and transfer never completed. Have not looked at the cost of renewal until it's too late to do anything: $29/yr. Is it the most expensive .info name on the planet or what?
I believe what they are doing is to protect its numerous resellers where the bulk of their business comes from. They need to allow their resellers from pitching the supposed cost savings if they purchase from them rather than from eNom.
Enom is primarily a reseller. You can buy through one of their resellers for $8-10. They keep their own retail prices high so they don't compete with their resellers.
Oh hey a place Logic does business with. e-Nom is great to us. They are where Logic keeps our personal domain portfolio. We do sell domains through them. For our hosted client base expansion needs. We are allowed to keep our names and client names very organized. I asked them about the end user pricing a long time ago and that it is true they sale names to one by one buyers but they (the 1 buyer) gets a price protection inflation so we are not impacted. It is just my 2 cents on how we are handled, and we buy a lot from their Name Jet drop name bidding site but we put the names we are wanting into the other 3 or so services so we always get our chance to win in the after drop bidding. Ok only moved to e-Nom about 3 years ago and finally transferred all names we hold into an accounting tool feature so we do not miss a renewal or anything else that arrises.
enom is good for big business but stay away if you have not got the money for big business. They dont make their money via small sales but big ones.