Separate the price to buy a domain from the cost to keep it.

Start with the exact candidate and extension in your private notes, not a generic extension price. Distinguish an available registration, an aftermarket purchase from a current holder, and a transfer between registrars. These are different events. A registrar transfer quote is not a seller's purchase price, and an asking price does not establish that an agreement or acquisition is available.

Choose the period you want to inspect and write its end date. Record the quote currency and when you checked it. A multi-year holding scenario is a planning assumption, not a prediction of how long the domain will take to sell. Keep the original currency beside each quote; do not silently combine amounts in different currencies or assume today's exchange rate will apply later.

Copy the fields below into your own document or spreadsheet. This is a manual template: no candidate has been researched, no quote is prefilled, and nothing is calculated or saved by this page. For every cost line, duplicate the evidence fields, enter your own verified amount, and mark unknown when the amount or applicability is unresolved. Unknown is not zero; use not applicable only when the source supports that conclusion.

Keep one line per charge and a separate line for each dated renewal in your chosen review period. Mark a quote as proposed, an accepted obligation as committed, and an invoice as paid. Do not add proposed alternatives to committed costs as if you will pay for every acquisition route. Preserve the source or quote reference privately so someone else can retrace the entry without needing your account credentials.

Read what the purchase or registration quote actually includes and record the next expiry or renewal date. A first-year promotion is not evidence of the later renewal amount. Porkbun's pricing page separates registration, renewal, and transfer categories; its domain cost calculator is a general registration-and-renewal comparison, not an exact aftermarket acquisition quote. Use those distinctions to ask better questions, not to copy a competitor price table into your ledger.

Prevent double counting: if the acquisition quote already includes a registration term or transfer charge, do not add that same item again. If a transfer adds registration time, verify the exact domain's eligibility and the resulting expiry rather than assuming every transfer buys another year. Do not count the same coverage period once as an included term and again as a planned renewal. Leave the term unresolved until the registrar or transaction documentation confirms it.

The word premium can describe different things. A current holder's seller price is an aftermarket acquisition amount; registry premium status concerns the registry's pricing of the exact name. Neither label tells you the other's amount. Porkbun explains that some registry premium domains have higher ongoing renewal prices while others renew at non-premium rates. A standard extension price does not settle the renewal for a premium name.

Before treating any renewal as known, obtain the exact-name renewal quote from the intended registrar and record its date, currency, term, and premium classification. Keep the quoted acquisition amount and renewal amount on separate lines even when both are called premium. If the seller supplies only a purchase price or an old screenshot, mark the ongoing renewal unknown rather than substituting a public non-premium price.

Review applicable escrow, marketplace, broker, transfer, payment, currency-conversion, and tax charges against the actual transaction terms. Do not assume every charge applies or that the buyer always pays it. Record who bears the charge, its basis, and whether the displayed total already includes it. Tax treatment depends on the transaction and jurisdiction; this worksheet does not determine tax liability. Obtain qualified advice when needed.

Place future selling costs in a separate conditional note. Afternic's published fees depend on configuration; there is no universal marketplace commission to hardcode here. Verify the intended channel's current terms, fee basis, minimums if any, and who pays before describing a potential sale's costs. Sale probability remains unknown. A conditional selling fee is not a committed acquisition expense, and a possible sale price is not proceeds already earned.

Review every unknown, expired quote, duplicated term, and currency mismatch before summarizing the ledger. Keep paid, committed, and assumed future amounts visibly distinct. Renewal scenarios depend on continued holding and future prices; do not label a scenario a guaranteed lifetime ownership cost. Optional hosting, email, or research subscriptions belong on separate lines only if they are part of your own plan, not automatically on every domain's bill.

Procurement cost is not a retail estimate. Spending more does not establish greater resale value, and subtracting costs from an automated appraisal does not establish expected profit, a maximum bid, buyer demand, or a time to sale. SparkNamer's Beta appraisal can supply a separate screening reference with available evidence and limitations. It does not complete this ledger, verify your quotes, or recommend buying the candidate. Keep unresolved costs visible even if the appraisal range looks attractive.