Take from the poor, give to the rich, same with .org it’s a transfer of wealth, land grab, whatever you want to call it, the 1% looking for new revenue streams, costs a lost to take a private jet these days, costs are going up, you even have to pay up to find a good gardener.
ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
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Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#12I know very little about the technical and business side of DNS and Domain Registrars. That being said, have things actually gotten more expensive for them to operate? I'm pretty confident the answer is no and these price increases just reflect the need for a handful of entities to charge more for an essential service with no viable alternative.
That organization took it to international stewardship in 2016 but it has no competition and seems to be just doing its monopoly thing.
Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#13"Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 — and the sky is t…
70%?! Wow, that's enough to fund all kinds of innovation in the domain name space.
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#14Are there any alternative DNS resolution systems and which browsers are implementing them?
https://ipfs.io has https://docs-beta.ipfs.io/concepts/ipns , but the names aren't human-readable- it still depends on DNS for human readable names: https://docs-beta.ipfs.io/concepts/dnslink Basic IPFS support was added in Firefox 59
IPFS is more of a storage layer. Pairing it with a decentralized naming layer like https://handshake.org (just launched a week ago) would make for a powerful combination.
Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#15"Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 — and the sky is t…
70%?! Wow, that's enough to fund all kinds of innovation in the domain name space.
If by innovation you mean raise salaries, hire new people and add to your management consulting contracts sure.
Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#16I have mixed feelings about this, the increase by ICANN is outrageous, but at the same time NameCheap are positioning themselves as heros here, and I've been burnt multiple times by the byzantine way their renewal system tries to fool you into paying for the wrong thing (put 'registration period as 10 years? suuure, we won't tell you you're paying for 10 years of privacy guard over 1 year of domain registration though')
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#18How else would ICANN pay for vacations for its officers, directors, advisers and staff?
Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#19I have mixed feelings about this, the increase by ICANN is outrageous, but at the same time NameCheap are positioning themselves as heros here, and I've been burnt multiple times by the byzantine way their renewal system tries to fool you into paying for the wrong thing (put 'registration period as 10 years? suuure, we won't tell you you're paying for 10 years of privacy guard over 1 year of domain registration thoug…
The WhoisGuard service is free with registration now.
Re: ICANN Allows .COM Price Increases, Gets More Money
#20I know very little about the technical and business side of DNS and Domain Registrars. That being said, have things actually gotten more expensive for them to operate? I'm pretty confident the answer is no and these price increases just reflect the need for a handful of entities to charge more for an essential service with no viable alternative.
Another way to look at this (and this only works for domains, not things like hosting) is supply and demand. There's a limit to the number of domains out there, and there's a huge increase in people who want them. It's almost like Bitcoin or other cryptocurrencies... scarcity is built in to domains. At some point, they'll all be taken.
How would we run out of domains? Register every single 253-character string as a domain name? Sounds expensive.