price increase for dot com website owners

cally6008

https://investor.verisign.com/releasedetail.cfm?releaseid=431292

VeriSign Announces Increase in .com/.net Domain Name Fees

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Dec 17, 2009 (MARKETWIRE via COMTEX News Network) -- VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world, today announced, effective July 1, 2010, an increase in registry domain name fees for .com and .net, per its agreements with ICANN.
VeriSign announced that as of July 1, 2010, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.86 to $7.34 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $4.23 to $4.65.
As the economy and society becomes increasingly dependent on digital technology, it is imperative that investment in the underlying infrastructure, including .com and .net, continue to keep pace with the robust growth of the Internet and ensure its continued security and reliability. Over the last decade, the volume of Internet traffic and domain name system (DNS) queries on VeriSign's global infrastructure has increased from an average of approximately 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day today while maintaining 100 percent operational accuracy and stability for the last eleven years.



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bingo_bango

If you only run a few sites it won't make a significant difference. Can see where we are going to get clobbered by the resellers though.

Might be time to consider buying a ten year lease. :think:

calvinac

It will not affect much as I own only 3 .com domains but yes we need to get it for 10 years lease to avoid these issues later.

cally6008

I've checked with my webhosts and they are not increasing their .com prices.

PasturesNew

I've no idea if mine are being increased, but it's peanuts. If your website can't earn you the cost of its existence, then it's time to drop it. If it's a personal website then $1 won't break the bank.