Registry Fees to Rise Once Again
October 15, 2007 was a day that our CEO Elliot Noss has called “a dark day in Internet history”. That was the day the price of a .COM domain name increased for the first time, and marked the beginning of what will be a near-annual event for the next several years: increases in fees by the major Generic Top Level Domain (gTLD) registries.
This fall, history will repeat itself as most gTLDs will once again introduce a price increase. The following domain name registries have informed us they intend to raise their prices:
- .COM will increase by $0.44 to $6.86 beginning on Oct. 1, 2008.
- .NET will increase by $0.38 to $4.98 beginning on Oct. 1, 2008.
- .ORG will increase by $0.60 to $6.75 beginning on Nov. 9, 2008.
- .INFO will increase by $0.60 to: $6.75 beginning on Nov. 1, 2008.
.BIZ was the only major gTLD that decided to not increase their prices this year.
The net result is that you should strongly consider renewing your names prior to these fee increases, and encourage your customers to do the same. Multi-year renewals and new registrations that take place before the increases will be billed at the current per domain, per year rate regardless of the renewal or registration term.