Verisign Blocked From Raising Price of .com

[procanic]

A news article From Money.CNN states The price of a .com domain will not be raised , Will stay at current $7.85.

Good to hear it in my opinion

For more Go to:
http://money.cnn.com/2012/11/30/technology/verisign/

 

[RazorNF]

The Commerce Department will need to approve any price hikes on .com registration through 2018, which it only plans to do for "extraordinary expenses related to security or stability threats."

I don't see this as a guarantee on prices. Now until 2018 is a long time.

During that time, I'm sure they will find something to classify as an "extraordinary expense" to justify asking for an increase.

 

[LeDomain]

This is good, I will take this. This was step 1.

We can hope, they will stop this monopoly and get some competitors to bid on running the registry. Bring prices down.

 

[DU]

This is good, I will take this. This was step 1.

We can hope, they will stop this monopoly and get some competitors to bid on running the registry. Bring prices down.

Higher prices could arguably be better.

 

[LeDomain]

Higher prices could arguably be better.

How much higher is better for registry fees? I don't get the concept that higher is better. Not good if you own 50 domains and definitely not good if you own thousands or hundreds of domains for renewal.

 

[procanic]

Higher prices could arguably be better.

I see your point in one regard. That raising the price would weed out a lot of the Less value Domains (I ran into this in my previous life as a tow-truck operator) "The strong will survive"


As mentioned "special Circumstances VeriSign will get any Increase they go after ....Within Reason.

 

[DU]

How much higher is better for registry fees? I don't get the concept that higher is better. Not good if you own 50 domains and definitely not good if you own thousands or hundreds of domains for renewal.

If they were higher then people wouldn't hold 300,000 names.

If they were higher the internet would be less of a wasteland.

I'm speaking primarily as an internet user. Can you imagine if all posters and billboards in New York were $8 a year.... horrible

 

[RazorNF]

You do have a point...

I would certainly be lighter a few domains if I didn't register one every time a new GD code comes out, lol.

 

[alien51]

If they were higher then people wouldn't hold 300,000 names.

If they were higher the internet would be less of a wasteland.

I'm speaking primarily as an internet user. Can you imagine if all posters and billboards in New York were $8 a year.... horrible

That is supposed to be Google's (or any other search engine's) problem. They are the ones indexing the garbage with their hyper-intelligent algorithms. If they were doing their jobs right, then the wasteland part of the internet won't be visible to you.

The secondary impact, is that higher costs would make domain hostage-taking too expensive to sustain. These guys don't pollute the internet, but are simply blocking legit content developers from getting the domains they want with their galactically-priced ransom demands.

 

[zoomactive.com]

It's good prices hikes are going to stop. The goal is to bring more people in the world of owning their own website, not to deter that. While Americans can afford more, other countries may not be so fortunate.

 

[DU]

It's good prices hikes are going to stop. The goal is to bring more people in the world of owning their own website, not to deter that. While Americans can afford more, other countries may not be so fortunate.

Thats why ccTLDs exist? no? yet they have higher prices than .com?!

 

[alien51]

Thats why ccTLDs exist? no? yet they have higher prices than .com?!

I think he wants you to click his sig link.

 

[Kate]

Depends, some ccTLDs are cheaper.
In fact, some can even be had for free.
I think Mongolia allows one free domain per citizen, at least another country does the same (Nepal perhaps, I can't remember).