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12-07-2008, 09:53 AM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Grosse Pointe, MI
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   | .com/.net Domain Renewal Rates dropping The lates Verisign Domain Industry Brief for the 3rd Qtr 2008 shows many trends.. http://www.verisign.com/static/044349.pdf Domain renewal rates are at a low of 72% compared to the highs of 77% in 2006. I expect this number to further drop when the 4th Qtr report comes out...Verisign conveniently fails to point out that increasing Renewal Fees (at one of the worst economic times) had the most to do with this drop in renewals... Post away your thoughts... |
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12-07-2008, 10:06 AM
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| NamePros Expert  Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Canada
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      | Completely agree -- further drop and obviously the geniuses at VeriSign know darn well the real reason for it. Who the heck raises prices during a recession? The only one worse than VeriSign is Rolex -- they've raised their prices twice this year already (I'm sure VeriSign would have raised it twice as well if allowed)  ????: NamePros.com http://www.namepros.com/domain-name-discussion/540306-com-net-domain-renewal-rates-dropping.html
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12-07-2008, 12:10 PM
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| Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Wyomissing, PA, USA
Posts: 1,223
| Comcast raises rates during recessions, and by just as much as if it was still 1999. Out of my portfolio of what was once over 1300, I've whittled it down to under 400... Between those I liquidated for practically nothing (many to buyers who take a calculated gamble on near-expiration domains) and hundreds I allowed to expire outright, I'd wager, on the 4th qtr 08 / 1st qtr 09 reports, one will be able to attribute 600+ less renewals to me alone... Multiply that times many other domainers and companies with large "defensive" portfolios, and it's near certain, the numbers are going to be far worse going into mid 2009... To raise prices in a recession, especially for something like domain names, whose maintenance cost is already greatly inflated (some knowledge folks say the actual is under $2 each) and whose profit margins are huge already is foolish - but not surprising for companies that only look ahead a quarter or two, but I digress. The overall number of domains across all cc/gTLDs will continue to grow - ICANN is making sure of that  ...However, there's going to be much pain in many of the TLD registries, and especially for many registrars that rely on rapid domain registration / transfer-in growth, who can't compete against the biggest, such as GoDaddy that consistently earns a bundle due to agressive upsells and economies of scale. Ron
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12-07-2008, 11:09 PM
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| NamePros Regular  Join Date: Nov 2006 Location: Sydney, Australia
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ccTLD's are remaining strong with 26% rego growth (it didn't report on renewals for ccTLDs but I'm sure that it would be as high as ever. In fact would be interesting to find out that figure...? anyone?)
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12-08-2008, 05:46 AM
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| NamePros Regular Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Grosse Pointe, MI
Posts: 239
| Agreed, ccTLD renewal rates would be an interesting figure to find out...depending on the ccTLD's, prices do vary quite a bit between countries... New registrations in .com/.net could be dropping also due to lack of "high quality names"...the point I was trying to drive was Verisign increasing prices starting in 2006 potentially contributing to lower renewal rates also... |
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