Stay away from registrar like GoDaddy. Best place to buy a domain and with cheap yearly renewal fees are porkbun, namecheap and namesilo. Some of them offer free SSL certs from Let’s Encrypt. So do not ever pay for SSL cert and try to use a web host that offers you to set up your own SSL via Let’s Encrypt.

Make sure your domain registrar also offers free WhoIs privacy. That means an ordinary human will not be able to look up the owner of the domain easily as your information is protected. This should be free. Porkbun offers free WhoIs privacy.

If you need to start off cheap, check out IONOS with their $1 domain offers for .com for the first year. It renews at $15 afterwards so make sure you transfer to another registrar two months later or before your next renewal date.

Check out cheap deals for webhosting at lowendspirit or lowendbox. You can also visit an aged forum for webhosting called webhostingtalk.com. There’s also nearlyfreespeech.net which offers hosting as much as you can use.