[Announcement] Price Increase Coming for .COM and .NET domains (1/15/2012)

xpleet · Dec 8, 2011

Hi,
I just got an email from Name.com :

As many of you may know the company responsible for .COM/.NET addresses, VeriSign, has announced a price increase scheduled for January 15, 2012.

We strongly advise that you take advantage of current prices by renewing your domain names before 1/15/2012. This will add an additional year of registration to your domain at the current, lower price. By renewing for multiple years you can lock in long-term savings!

midnight_focus · Dec 8, 2011

Verisign announced that as of Jan. 15, 2012, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $7.34 to $7.85 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase from $4.65 to $5.11.

https://investor.verisign.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=591560

ryanmercer · Dec 8, 2011

At reading the title I screamed noooo but those prices aren't bad... hell that isn't even inflation

Mountaineer · Dec 8, 2011

Its not a very big increase, I can live with that. But in godaddy renewal email, they were screaming like if verisign is increasing 50$ on a single domain

maxok · Dec 8, 2011

aahah I was afraid, I thought a .com for 15 bucks XD
but is normal that the price have to increase

xpleet · Dec 8, 2011

midnight_focus said:
https://investor.verisign.com/releaseDetail.cfm?ReleaseID=591560

I think the prices above are for registrar. The increase can hit $1 or even more for some registrars.
$1 for the owners of a large network with hundreds of domains is huge increase.

kideze · Dec 9, 2011

yea....not that big of a increase but still a increase

scrapefox · Dec 9, 2011

Totally agree that the price increase isn't great. It's certainty not something I'd worry too much about.

BreakAllTheClocks · Dec 9, 2011

I noticed the other day that Namecheap had increased the prices already.

GimmeMoney · Dec 9, 2011

The angry smiley in the title led me to believe it would be a price increase of 100% or something. Instead it's just a few cents. No big deal.

axus_auto · Dec 9, 2011

GimmeMoney said:
The angry smiley in the title led me to believe it would be a price increase of 100% or something. Instead it's just a few cents. No big deal.

But when you have 2,000 domains ... it all adds up.

ryanmercer · Dec 9, 2011

axus_auto said:
But when you have 2,000 domains ... it all adds up.

So don't own 2k domains. Thats still only what about 400 bucks.

Taylor3 · Dec 9, 2011

Godaddy is obv just trying to close out q4 with a bang

xeenastar · Dec 10, 2011

seriously? after they enable so many other extensions?? maybe this is a marketing strategies to push ppl using new extensions.

Mountaineer · Dec 10, 2011

xeenastar said:
seriously? after they enable so many other extensions?? maybe this is a marketing strategies to push ppl using new extensions.

I don't think its related to new extensions. Its probably just because of inflation. If they want to promote new extensions, they should offer some really discounted prices like on .info

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