Verisign hikes up domain name prices
From TechCrunch: "Verisign, the domain name registry that controls the .com domain (as well as .net and others), just notified its registrars that the wholesale price of .com domains will be raised 7%, from $6/year to $6.42/year."
Great, that's all we need right now. Seven percent may not mean much, especially for domainers or speculators who register domains by the bulk, but for those who just want to establish a web presence (sounds so early 21st century), it's yet another obstacle.
We certainly can't shift to a ccTLD easily, because the current ccTLD registrar charges $35! (Of course, pricing for CNO (.com, .net, .org) domains are not comparable to ccTLDs because of the sheer volume, but still, I wonder how much DotPH really earns from selling domains.)
The issue here, I think, is that a monopoly can pretty much do anything it wants. Verisign has been given almost carte blanche in increasing domain name prices by 7% yearly, indefinitely. DotPH determines its own pricing scheme as well -- not very consumer-friendly, but more targetted for those who get domains wholesale.
Great, that's all we need right now. Seven percent may not mean much, especially for domainers or speculators who register domains by the bulk, but for those who just want to establish a web presence (sounds so early 21st century), it's yet another obstacle.
We certainly can't shift to a ccTLD easily, because the current ccTLD registrar charges $35! (Of course, pricing for CNO (.com, .net, .org) domains are not comparable to ccTLDs because of the sheer volume, but still, I wonder how much DotPH really earns from selling domains.)
The issue here, I think, is that a monopoly can pretty much do anything it wants. Verisign has been given almost carte blanche in increasing domain name prices by 7% yearly, indefinitely. DotPH determines its own pricing scheme as well -- not very consumer-friendly, but more targetted for those who get domains wholesale.
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