.info, .com and .net prices going up later this year...

[deu12000]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070418...s&printer=1;_ylt=Ak6k5BfYf1..MCkHi_q8wCdk24cA

Fee for '.info' domain name to increase

By ANICK JESDANUN, AP Internet Writer
2 hours, 45 minutes ago

Wholesale prices for Internet addresses ending in ".info" are going up 2.5 percent on Oct. 15, the same day fees for ".com" and ".net" are increasing.

Afilias Ltd., which runs ".info," disclosed the scheduled increase in a letter last week to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the Internet's key oversight agency.

.info should stay up (in price). I think it's a great extension, but these 99 cent specials are killing a lot of the good domains that might still have been around if it wasn't for the pricing.

 

[Mark]

Thx deu12000 ~ :tu:

Yes , as much as I enjoy the cheap prices for testing - I must admit it gives the "Buying" public a bad view for extensions to promote a sale this long .... They should have done it for like 3 months and quit (If at all).

 

[Ronald Regging]

I have to agree. I think the cheap pricing has created an influx in horrible, cheap .info regs, which are then used to develop horrible, cheap websites. Someone regs a domain for $.99, uses a free script and throws up a useless site overnight, then sells the site for $70 a month later... .info in my eyes has become completely tainted.

I'd kill for history.info though

 

[deu12000]

On the bright side if this is a permanent price increase, about a year later a whole bunch of domains will be dropping, but of course mostly junk. I bet there will be/and are tons of great deals for great keyword/keyword combination .info's because of this pricing. I've gotten great deals on .info's and of course sold tons of them very cheap and had some respectable priced .info sales.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Add .org to that list. As of Oct 18, 2007 going from $6 to $6.18.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/frolich-to-twomey-18apr07.pdf

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Seems to be a landslide.

.biz has announced today they are also raising prices in October from $6.00 to $6.42.

http://www.icann.org/correspondence/tindal-to-schwartz-17apr07.pdf

As of October 19, 2007 at 00:00:00 GMT, all transactions processed in .BIZ will incur a $6.42 fee per domain year with the exception of the Redemption Grace Period (RGP) fees, which will remain unchanged. This amount includes all registry fees due to ICANN.

So now it's: Com/Net/Info/Biz/Org....

anyone think .us is probably not far behind?

 

[commes]

Why are all of the main TLD's increasing?Is it due to so many people buying them, so the registrars think they can get more per domain or something? .info within about a year will become popular, and im sure the new pricing will rid of the junky domains and whatnot, so you people shouldn't worry to much about that.

 

[armin]

OMG why are the domains going up 2.5 percent.

 

[AdoptableDomains]

Why are all of the main TLD's increasing?

Because they can.

.info within about a year will become popular, and im sure the new pricing will rid of the junky domains and whatnot, so you people shouldn't worry to much about that.

I don't think a 2.5% increase will mean that much to anyone except those who own large portfolios. The average end user who's paying $9-$15 per year probably won't see much if any increase. It's the reseller down close to the wholesale price that will be hit. I'd guess all those $6.95 reseller accounts will become more like $7.25 or like godaddy has already done, it will remain at $6.95 but they won't absorb the $.25 ICANN fee any more and will add it to the $6.95.

I still expect to see occasional .99-2.99 sales on the non-coms though even after the increase.