Domain Name Price to be Raised
Filed in: Web Development — October 13th, 2007
Verisign and other domain registries will be raising the rates for registrars on October 15th, 2007. The top-level domains being effected are .com, .net, .org, .info .biz, .us and .name.
The old domain price to a registrar was $6.20 USD, new price is $6.62 USD. Most registrars will pass the cost directly to their customers.
If you have many domain names, you should renew them now to save money. Do confirm with your domain registrars whether they will increase the price or not. Generally, if you are paying much for domain name (e.g. $15 USD) now, the price will remain.
How many domain names do you have? Will you renew them now?
[via DomainTools Blog]
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October 13th, 2007 at 7:59 pm
I have 7 domain names. Will go renew now.
October 13th, 2007 at 8:49 pm
My webhost renewed all mine for me last week. I cannot keep track of how many domains i have to date. I paid Rm1.5k for them all.
October 13th, 2007 at 9:18 pm
Godaddy.com already increased prices for .com domain names.
it was USD8.95 now it is USD9.99
October 13th, 2007 at 11:29 pm
it seems we are too late. i registered with godaddy too! sad.
October 14th, 2007 at 12:29 am
still able to get USD$6.95 in http://www.Domain.com.my, but probably wont for long…. thanks for the update liew
October 14th, 2007 at 12:54 am
I have 48 domain names and all of them still have either 5 or 6 years to expiry date. So not renewing them at the moment. I use NameCheap.com and they are raising the price on 14 Oct 2007 from $8.88 to $9.29 but because of the number of domains, they gave me a permanent discount coupon (10%) to be used for renewals and new registrations.
The latest increase in domain name is negligible if your sites are making money. Moreover there are more important things to be focused on rather than this small amount when you’re running an online business.
Just my personal opinion.
October 14th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
50+ domain names.
Most of them in namecheap, slowly transfer all of them to domainsite, which still cost only USD$6.99. Renewal is USD$7.99.
October 14th, 2007 at 3:46 pm
Wow…thank goodness i bought mine just before the price increase :).
October 14th, 2007 at 5:07 pm
When I bought my hosting, the domain is given to me free of charge, will this price raise affects me?
October 14th, 2007 at 5:25 pm
@Wayne Liew: it depends to your hosting provider whether they want to pass the cost to their customers or not. Personally, I will bear the cost.
October 14th, 2007 at 6:13 pm
I am using dynadot, it increased the price from USD7.99 to USD8.99.
October 18th, 2007 at 6:53 pm
Luckily I got mine before the price increase. And it was one month NOT too late.
Had my domain name less than one month before prices increased! Lucky, but renewal fees sure go up next year when it is time for renewal.
October 20th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
I already did the renew for this year! Will check with my web hosting company on this issue.. Thanks.
October 21st, 2007 at 8:40 pm
I think I am still fine with the small increase since I only have one domain. However, I am planning to register one more~
October 22nd, 2007 at 10:21 pm
NameCheap, whom I have used for years as a registrar, just raised their prices to $9.29, up from 8.88 - not fun (especially when you have hundreds of domains)
October 23rd, 2007 at 9:08 am
Bought some yesterday and notice a bigger hit to the pocket.
October 23rd, 2007 at 5:53 pm
Why the price increase if it is just a string of text own by someone?
That does the $$ paid goes into?
Me curious.
October 24th, 2007 at 2:02 am
@Mr. Bear: part of the money goes to ICANN and Verisign
October 27th, 2007 at 2:34 pm
Well, it’s only a few cents difference. But that could also be a lot of difference if someone has 10 or more domains. Maybe it’s time to look for a cheaper alternative…maybe DomainSite? FYI, DomainSite’s Hidden Whois service is much cheaper than NameCheap