.net price change
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DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
The wholesale price of .com's is frozen at $7.85 under Verisign's current 6-year agreement with ICANN (expires on 11/30/2018) so it will be a few years before you see any .com price increases.
The wholesale price Verisign charges registrars for .net's will rise to $6.79 (from the current $6.18) on February 1st.
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drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
61 cent increase is ~ 10% uptick on base pricing... that's hefty... thanks @DomainBop.
Many, many years ago I mocked the alternative domain extensions as novelties.
With the continued price surging of .com, .net and .org, yeah, officially it is time for other extensions to start getting traction widely.
Seeing lots of registrars I've had stuff parked with really uptick the domain renewal pricing.
Many, many years ago I mocked the alternative domain extensions as novelties.
With the continued price surging of .com, .net and .org, yeah, officially it is time for other extensions to start getting traction widely.
Seeing lots of registrars I've had stuff parked with really uptick the domain renewal pricing.
DomainBop
Dormant VPSB Pathogen
I'm mocking anyone who is dumb enough to pay $2.5K-$3.5K for a 1 year .rich domain registration or $500-$900 for a .luxury name.
As far as .com/.net pricing, the current pricing is much lower than the $50 yearly that Network Solutions charged from 1995-1997 (and it only offered 2 year registrations) , and the $35 yearly it lowered the price to in 1997 (after it was sued) when it was the only domain registrar. [Verisign acquired Network Solutions in 2000, so almost 20 years of price fixing by the company since the government put it in charge of .com/.net....FYI, com/.net/.org registrations were free up until NetSol starting charging for them in '95]
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61 cents a year is your entire profit margin, isn't it...
Well, we told you those plans were not sustainable.
I would rather appreciate more price increases (mainly with .com), even every month. Otherwise, the .com saga will never stop and people continue to block domains to sell it for a premium. For the new gTLDs to pick up, increasing the prices of .com/.net etc is the only easy way I think.
Think from a user point of view, now if one wants a domain with a good name, Is it readily available at a fair price? Most are blocked and is sold for $100 to $1000+ . This would stop (or at least would reduce) with the new gTLDs adoption, and the user would be paying less for a good name.
tk-hassan
Member
there are too many new TLDs that its very rare that they can be used for resale in the next 5 years.
drmike
100% Tier-1 Gogent
Well with all the new extensions, the days of caring about domains has kind of gone goodbye.I'm mocking anyone who is dumb enough to pay $2.5K-$3.5K for a 1 year .rich domain registration or $500-$900 for a .luxury name.
As far as .com/.net pricing, the current pricing is much lower than the $50 yearly that Network Solutions charged from 1995-1997 (and it only offered 2 year registrations) , and the $35 yearly it lowered the price to in 1997 (after it was sued) when it was the only domain registrar. [Verisign acquired Network Solutions in 2000, so almost 20 years of price fixing by the company since the government put it in charge of .com/.net....FYI, com/.net/.org registrations were free up until NetSol starting charging for them in '95]
Folks like Network Solutions always have fetched premium money on domain registrations. Less than in the 1990's obviously, but upward pressure is pushing everyone up which is generally meh.
Cost behind whole domain registration management is pretty low. So low that the prices aren't justified even low side. I never looked at the underlying commodity cost charged to registrars, but would be interesting to see who and where the money is flowing in mass to.
mojeda
New Member
There is something most people aren't aware when purchasing .io domains.Get a new domain name buyvm.io or buyvm.xxx !
If you do not renew your domain 5 days before it actually expires, the domain becomes expired, before the set date to expire is.
If the domain is expired, you can't simply renew it. You have to pay a $200 + renewal fee in order to get it renewed. So when you have .io domains make sure you have auto renew on.