Get Your Credit Cards Ready… ICANN Price Increases Coming Soon!
Posted on | March 28, 2008 | 2 Comments
Crap. Early warning on ICANN’s fee raises for October ’08.
“VeriSign to raise registry fees for .com and .net domain names”
The Mountain View, Calif.-based company said the registry fee for .com domain names will increase to $6.86 from $6.42 while the registry fee for .net domain names will rise to $4.23 from $3.85.
Not really a surprise. This was shown in their contract last year if I remember correctly. I still remember the increase of October 2007. Got my shiny new credit card (which is maxed out, at the moment) and renewed my domains till 2009. Looks like I might have to be doing the same this year also just to save some money? Eh. Not sure.
7% Price Increases:
2008 $6.42 -> $6.82
2009 $6.82 -> $7.30
2010 $7.30 -> $7.81
2011 $7.81 -> $8.36
For someone who only owns 5-10 domains, this probably won’t really matter to them. For large portfolio holders… HRMMM. How long are people going to hold their LLLL.com/.net? 
Tags: .com price > .net increase > credit card pwnage > damn icann > getting screwed > stupid domain fees
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March 28th, 2008 @ 11:38 am
No doubt whose that make a living from the net the best bet is just to get a reseller account with like godaddy and be able to buy a discount pricing in the long term the savings outweigh the yearly cost.
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July 22nd, 2008 @ 7:30 pm
I’ve been registering most of my domains 1 year at a time, but next year I’m seriously considering buying in a few years ahead to save some money. Vic has some pretty good advice though.
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