Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
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Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#2•Create: $16.59* (current price $15.50)
•Renewal: $16.59 (current price $15.50)
•Transfer: $13.38 (current price $12.50)
•Restore: $139.10 (current price $130.00*)
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#3It's not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.
Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year:
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#4Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000?
Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#5It's not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292348
That's incredibly fucked up. The .com contract needs to go out to tender.
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#6It's not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292348
And 2026 to 2029.
> besides this year’s price increase, Verisign has been permitted to increase .com prices up to 7% in 2022 and 2023 as well as between 2026 to 2029.
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#7Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains?
I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#8It's not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year: [0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22292348
That's incredibly fucked up. The .com contract needs to go out to tender.
I think the huge amount of domain camping implies that .com could stand to be a whole lot more expensive to hold and do nothing with. If you're using it for something important, $20/yr probably isn't going to break the bank. If anything, I think it should be much more.
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#9Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000? Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
Namesquatting has the effect of increasing prices so, no, there is no price at which namesquatting would be disincentivized. In fact the higher the prices the more appealing it becomes to our friends on wall street.
> Is there a price level at which the nerds say "fuck this" and create new domain roots without ICANN?
One without ICANN but what about namesquatting?
Re: Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021
#10I moved my domains last year from Gandi to Porkbun, very happy customer.