It’s coming up. The domain name prices are going up. Enom emailed me today to say:
In April 2007, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) approved certain domain registries to increase their prices. Domain registries are the private companies which manage the registration, technical operations, and control the allocation policies of the TLD’s for which they are responsible.
Domain registries VeriSign, Afilias, Neulevel and Public Interest Registry applied for and received price increases and have announced they will be raising their wholesale prices to all ICANN-accredited registrars.
I have to say, I’m pretty uneasy about this. Not so much about the higher price, I think it could be good for the domain economy. Might get people to stop impulse buying names. No, I’m a little more worried with where this is headed. Are they trying to take us up to paying the older prices? The domain prices went down because there were less domains available and the likelihood of getting what you want was very slim. Now a finding a .com domain with one word that’s available is a miracle. So prices should be lower than ever, right?
I’m not going to be raising my prices on E-Starr, I’ll keep it at $10 per year. The price for me to purchase domains is going up by 50 cents, so I think I can cover that. Between the new registration fees and the credit card fees I won’t be making anything from the domains, but that’s not really the purpose for me to offer them with the hosting.
How do you feel about this?
Are you going to renew your domain early to avoid higher fees?
[...] a couple of things going on right now that make me wonder a bit. One of the most annoying is the rising price of domain names. The domain name registrar I use is raising their prices (well, my price) by 50 cents. But is this [...]
September 14, 2007 @ 8:16 pmI hate when prices go up on anything, but as long as it stays below…let’s say $15 a domain. Then I guess I am okay with that.
September 14, 2007 @ 9:02 pmSo if we registered the domains ourselves, we’ll be paying more when we go to renew them?
September 14, 2007 @ 9:58 pmYes, unless you renew before Oct 15.
September 14, 2007 @ 11:20 pmI thought domains with you are $8.50
I remember when domains were like $30. That was way back when. I have mixed feelings about rising prices. I don’t like how everyone and their mom buy up domains and don’t use them for anything or the massive amounts of spam domains. But I don’t want to pay extra for mine.
September 15, 2007 @ 2:14 amThey’re $8.50 in the registry rocket, because that’s straight through Enom. That one will go up because I can’t control the minimum they allow there.
When you buy a domain with hosting it’s $10 because there are fees with accepting payments with Paypal and credit card.
September 15, 2007 @ 7:34 amI bought one yesterday for $8.88. Funny price that.
September 19, 2007 @ 10:07 amYep, sounds like Namecheap.
September 19, 2007 @ 11:03 am