Fall is in the air, and while the leaves will soon be dropping from the trees around these parts, the fees charged by the various top-level domain Registries are set to rise in October and November.
Here’s how it shakes out:
- .COM will rise to $6.86 on October 1st, 2008 – an increase of 44 cents.
- .NET will rise to $4.98 on October 1st, 2008 – an increase of 38 cents.
- .INFO will rise to $6.75 on November 1st, 2008 – an increase of 60 cents.
- .ORG will rise to $6.75 on November 9th, 2008 – an increase of 60 cents.
Of note, the .BIZ registry is bucking the trend and will hold steady at $6.42.
Our registry fees will increase accordingly on those dates. Remember that you’ll have to add both the ICANN fee of $0.20, and your OpenSRS Management Fee to those registry fees.
While we’re on the subject, early indications are that the ICANN fee will likely stay at $0.20 through 2009, pending approval of the 2009 ICANN budget.
As a result of these upcoming registry fee increases, I wanted to point out that you can now see some of your retail competitors bumping up prices (in some cases, significantly more than the registry increase):
- Go Daddy has increased the retail price of .NET and .ORG to a whopping 13 bucks. Domain Name Wire has more.
- Yahoo upped their prices earlier this year: DomainNews.com has more.
While some are taking advantage of these registry increases to tack on price increases of their own, we’re committed to holding the line and are only increasing our wholesale price directly in line with the increase in the fee we pay to the registries.
As in the past, these increases do provide you with an opportunity. Actively encourage your customers to renew early (and for multi-year terms) to beat the coming increases.
Our current pricing chart is available here and as a reminder, you can view a listing of our ongoing pricing promotions here.
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