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Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by criddell »

missedthecue wrote: post #51
rovr138 wrote: post #2

The link is not just about the amount, A section, > There are about 152 million domain name registrations .com today so Verisign will make about $82 million more in the next year following the price increase out of thin air. > Verisign will be able to increase the price of .com in the next 3 years as well. > Verisign will suck about $3 billion dollars out of the world economy just by having some powerful friends at I…

Suck it out of the world economy? Does Verisign collect their profits and throw it all in a furnace?

What point are you trying to make? I think you know they don't burn the money.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by dec0dedab0de »

1B05H1N wrote: post #43

Can anyone fill me in on what Verisign actually does? It's my understanding that ICANN ensures that the namespace/numerical space infra is secure and stable.

They used to be the only registrar for com., or at least Network Solutions was, before they got bought. Verisign owns one of the root servers, and I believe they are in charge of adding SOAs for all the com. domains. Though I suppose the other root servers could go rogue at any time if they wanted to.

I think that all other registrars have to go through Verisign in order to register sub domains off of com., but there may be other ways. I haven't really kept up with it in the last 20 years.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by gertrunde »

pizza wrote: post #13

Why? Just cause they can? It's not like it costs them that much in maintenance per domain I imagine..

That is exactly it. They used to be price controlled, and then ICANN removed the price cap, so the predictable price rises are kicking in.

This probably illustrates the community consensus on it going back a couple of years: https://www.google.com/search?q=icann+.com+price+cap

Edit:

Whoops! ICANN haven't altered their price controls for .com recently. Might be getting mixed up with the .org kerfuffle.

In the current .com contract, prices were fixed at $7.85 until 30th November 2018, and are allowed to raise the cost by 7% per year after that, under certain conditions:

"7.3(d)(ii) Registry Operator shall be entitled to increase the Maximum Price during the term of the Agreement due to the imposition of any new Consensus Policy or documented extraordinary expense resulting from an attack or threat of attack on the Security or Stability of the DNS, not to exceed the smaller of the preceding year's Maximum Price or the highest price charged during the preceding year, multiplied by 1.07."

https://www.icann.org/en/registry-agreements/com/com-registr...

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by Hamuko »

RKearney wrote: post #64
ted0 wrote: post #38

Only upvoting this for visibility. This decision hurts the consumer/registrant in the end, making future registrations and renewal costs less accessible to a lot of markets. For clarity, this $8.39 amount will become the wholesale cost to the registrar — we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc. Registrars do the heavy lifting in de…

> we of course need to markup on top of that to cover our processing costs, overhead to offer great support, mitigate abuse, etc Why "of course"? Cloudflare is able to provide domains transfers and renewals at wholesale rates.

Does Cloudflare do registrations at all?

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by res0nat0r »

jaywalk wrote: post #29
res0nat0r wrote: post #5

That's cheap. And I thought Route53 for $12.99 was cheap already.

$12.99 for a .com registration is a hilariously overpriced ripoff.

It's just fine when I don't have to leave the AWS console and click two buttons vs. using some other service.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by therealEleix »

I would also love to remind everyone that this is the same company who controls not 1 but 2 core root DNS server addresses.

A.ROOT-SERVERS.NET J.ROOT-SERVERS.NET

That means Verisign controls 15% of the global roots while everyone else holds a meager 7%. IANA got the optics on this one all sorts of messed up.

Re: Verisign will increase the .com price from $7.85 to $8.39

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Post by joshuaissac »

tzs wrote: post #75
cpach wrote: post #35

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In that case it’s subsidized by their other offerings.

How can you infer that? I can see how you could infer it if they were selling them at a loss, but not from selling them without profit.

It must still cost Cloudflare something to offer to this service.
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