Domain Registration Price Increase Beginning October 1st
Today, we received a copy of an email which was sent out to all ICANN accredited domain name registrars. You can review the original message below.
Beginning October 1st 2008 there will be a domain price increase.
The price for a .COM domain name registration will increase 7% from the current base price $6 to $6.86. This does not include ¢0.25 ICANN fee and registrar markup.
According to the ICANN-VeriSign Settlement, this 7% price increase can and may be implemented each and every year. This may be a good time to bulk-renew your domain names and register new domains while pricing remains low.
From: VeriSign Customer Service nfo@verisign-grs.com
Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2008 4:02 PM
Subject: Advisory: Notice of Fee ChangeMarch 27, 2008
VIA Email and Express DeliveryRe: Notice of Fee Change
To All Registrars,
VeriSign, Inc. and it’s wholly owned subsidiaries (”VNDS”) is hereby notifying all registrars of a fee change for .com and/or .net domain names effective October 1, 2008. In accordance with our contract, ICANN has already been notified. Details as follows:
1. VNDS’ fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .com domain name registration and for each transfer of a .com domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US $6.86, exclusive of any ICANN Variable Registry-Level Fee (as defined in the .com Registry
Agreement) or any other ICANN fee; and
2. VNDS’ fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .net domain name registration and for each transfer of a .net domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US $4.23, exclusive of any ICANN Variable Registry-Level Fee (as defined in the .net Registry
Agreement) or any other ICANN fee.
Except for the above-described fee changes, all other terms of the relevant agreements (.com and .net Registry Agreements and Registry-Registrar
Agreements) remain unchanged.
Please contact Customer Affairs Office at cao@verisign-grs.com if you have specific questions regarding this notice.
Best regards,
PJ Bolanos
Vice President, Customer Support
VeriSign, Inc.
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March 28th, 2008 at 6:10 am
The pressure is on. Expect more drops. Definitely considering renewing multi-year on my strongest .com’s.
March 28th, 2008 at 7:35 am
I Think every year there will be increase in .coms and .net
March 29th, 2008 at 5:06 am
Bah, still cheaper than when I was buying domains from the only registrar in the market back in the early 90’s - network solutions. think it was around the $50 mark for a .com
but for $50, you had a large selection of names! not much was registered back then! well worth it!
March 30th, 2008 at 6:44 am
Today its very hard to find a good .com name. Perhaps if they actually raised the price by a few 100% it would stop all of the made for adsense websites.
March 30th, 2008 at 8:08 pm
I wish domain names were only registered for a month for a low monthly price. Also Domains should be expired just like GW bush can only stay in preseidency for 8 years.
This will allow everyone to get a chance at google.com!
lol yea im know im smoking. lol
March 30th, 2008 at 11:15 pm
I just got into blogging recently and I was surprised at how cheap the domain registration and hosting were. There are also coupons all over the web that made it even cheaper for me. So this price increase is not really a big deal.
March 31st, 2008 at 1:36 am
Ugh, inflation is taking over everything lol. But I’ve never got a domain for as cheap as $6
April 1st, 2008 at 2:11 am
That isn’t as bad as I thought it would be when I got my email about it. It stinks to pay more but it’s well worth it.
April 1st, 2008 at 10:28 pm
God, as if domain names weren’t too expensive already
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:28 am
Yeh this is going to cost me a bomb when i renew my domains….*ouch*
April 3rd, 2008 at 1:15 pm
6 * 7% = .42
so, it should be 6.42
wtf is the other .44 coming from?
April 3rd, 2008 at 11:36 pm
I think we have the oil prices to blame.
April 5th, 2008 at 12:59 am
Yeah, noticed that when I renew my domains.
April 6th, 2008 at 9:42 pm
still good value i reckon
April 7th, 2008 at 9:29 am
LOL at Karn Patel for saying “I think we have the oil prices to blame.”
April 7th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
Also remember that a lot of sites offer cheaper domain name registration but in fact they will hold the ownership of the domain until you pay them a (usually) exorbitant amount.
April 13th, 2008 at 5:02 pm
This does not surprise me one bit!