.uk WARNING: Price of 2-year .uk registrations going up 50% in March 2016.

[Edwin]

Here's the original news article by Nominet
http://www.nominet.uk/change-to-wholesale-pricing-for-uk-domains/

Note that it doesn't explicitly mention the 50% price rise, but as well as raising the 1-year price by 25p Nominet are also doing away with the 2-year pricing tier entirely meaning everyone will have to register/renew domains at the 1-year price no matter how long they register them for.

That makes the pricing post-1 March 2016 look like this:

There are 2 petitions opposing this price rise. One is for Nominet Members, calling for an EGM to discuss this and other issues:
http://www.egm.uk/petition-page/members-petition/

The other is open to any domain registrant opposed to the price rise:
http://www.egm.uk/petition-page/registrants-petition/

Please take a moment to read up on the upcoming change, and to sign one or both petitions if applicable.

 

[SoundMan]

I notice you don't mention this is the first price rise since 1999

The only problem I can see is that Nominet should have raised prices sooner in line with others and not had such a large increase in one hit.

The cost of transfers in the UK name space is too high at £12 not the cost of domains but very few domainers complain because they pass on the transfer fee on when they sell a domain if dot coms cost $20 to transfer it wouldn't go down very well on this forum?

This will only be noticed by large portfolio owners like yourself and not the man in the street

 

[Coldtrigger]

I'm not a large portfolio holder by any means (or a Nominet member/registrar), but I'm sure I will notice the increase when my registrars pass it on to me. This is the increase per domain, it's a double hit when you look at registering the .co.uk and the .uk - which plenty of men in the street will be doing.

I think the one of the main points is that Nominet have no need to inflate the prices so much, as they are a non profit organisation who are already working with a huge surplus.

 

[freddy]

signed the petition