Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase

Post by danjoredd » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 9:45 PM UTC

eastbound wrote: post #222

gabereiser wrote: post #206

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It’s also the most exhausted. The min char available now is in the 7 range. Prefixes and/or suffixes and even hyphens are being used to find land. It’s brutal.

Hence, a x100 price hike on .com would ensure that low-cost domain parking is squeezed out. It’s not linear. A domain at $2000, which costs the squatter $14 a year, would certainly go down by 75% if it costed the squatter $200 a year. Because the prospect of keeping it for 10 years goes from $140 to $2000, so the seller would make more benefit selling at $500 today than $2500 in 10 years. A squatter who’s squatting 1…

Post by hnarn » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 9:49 PM UTC

xd1936 wrote: post #155

scblzn wrote: post #12

The ICANN wholesale prices to registrars, from 1st of September are $9.59 per domain (+ $0.18 ICANN fee per domain) for registrations and renewals [1] [1]: https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...

And as long as you don't need custom nameservers, Cloudflare's Domain Registrar sells domains at that price. https://www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/

Post by hk1337 » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 9:55 PM UTC

hnarn wrote: post #239

agwa wrote: post #161

Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee $5.43 Namecheap's markup Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee (no change) $9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase) $6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase) So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also…

Ever since I found out that Cloudflare does not charge any markup on the domains you buy from them, I've decided to buy all my domains from them. They are very transparent with their pricing, and also has a notice about this increase; in their case it will go up from $9.15 to $9.77 -- which seems to check out with the sum of the registry fee plus the ICANN fee.

Post by sentientslug » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:15 PM UTC

joshmanders wrote: post #209

paulmd wrote: post #162

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mmhmm, and what happens to their email at the old address?

I am not exactly happy about the price increase, but if the domain is this important, is $15/yr really that bad? Like I'm flabbergasted at people complaining about the burdens of doing something nobody would do, because the cost isn't worth the effort. Now if they raised prices to $100+/yr I could imagine, but $15/yr is negligible costs.

Post by chuckreynolds » Mon, Aug 21, 2023, 10:17 PM UTC

tiffanyh wrote: post #196

agwa wrote: post #161

Namecheap's current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee $8.97 Verisign's current registry fee $5.43 Namecheap's markup Namecheap's new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as: $0.18 ICANN fee (no change) $9.59 Verisign's new registry fee (7% increase) $6.11 Namecheap's new markup (13% increase) So the price increase is not entirely "out of [Namecheap's] control". They are also…

$9.73 renewals at Porkbun. https://porkbun.com/tld/com