domains Alibaba raises prices for domain name auctions

[Lox]

Auctions for previously owned domain names now start at 99 yuan, a 43 per cent increase over new prices announced just a year ago.

The company said it is hiking prices “after careful consideration” in response to “increasing service costs”, but did not elaborate.

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[pb]

"previously owned" as in expired? TIL they run expired domains auctions, that's good to know.

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

TIL they run expired domains auctions, that's good to know.

Right?

"The Alibaba Cloud Domain Name Trade platform is a domain name trading system developed by Alibaba Cloud."

Who knew?

https://www.alibabacloud.com/help/en/dws/product-overview/what-is-domains
https://www.alibabacloud.com/en/domain
https://mi.aliyun.com/

 

[Bravo Mod Team]

"The Alibaba Cloud Domain Name Trade platform is a domain name trading system developed by Alibaba Cloud."

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[scithe]

That might be worse than GoDaddy going from $12 to $25