Slashdot Mirror

← Back to Stories (view on slashdot.org)

ICANN OKs Tiered Pricing for .org/.biz/.info

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the net-worth dept.

wayne writes "As reported on CircleID, Vint Cerf has confirmed that ICANN's new contracts for the .org/.biz/.info domain prices can be tiered, so that google.biz could cost $1 million per year, while sex.biz could cost $100,000/year. This is very similar to how the .tv TLD already works. The domain registrar could also could also use pricing for political purposes, claiming that pricing sex.biz high would be to 'protect the children,' while icann.org could be priced at $1/year. Verisign's contract for .com and .net have recently been renewed, so those domains are safe for now, but I'm sure they would want similar treatment."

5 of 182 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Google created that value by jdcool88 · · Score: 2, Informative

    I can't believe nobody simply checked. http://www.google.biz/ redirects, as does http://www.google.info/, but http://www.google.org/ is a page about the philanthropic arm of Google (it's still owned by Google).

    Of course a company like Google would take pains to protect their brand name. It'd be stupid to think otherwise.

  2. Re:This is fucking bullshit by BiggerIsBetter · · Score: 3, Informative

    There are already alternative DNS providers. Perhaps it's time we started using them. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_DNS_root

    --
    Forget thrust, drag, lift and weight. Airplanes fly because of money.
  3. Re:Shouldn't these basic domains be non-profit? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    I just bought a pen. It cost $1.29. Should I add it to the list?

    For the tiered pricing under discussion the money wouldn't go to ICANN, it would go to the registry (like VeriSign and NeuStar) ICANN gets a fixed amount of a domain registration (e.g. 75c for a .net domain), the rest goes to the Registry.

    (Yes, I work for ICANN)

  4. Re:Am I getting this straight? by doon · · Score: 3, Informative

    This is at the registry level, not the registrar level. So the the .org registry deceded that forbis.org was worth $40k per year, I believe your only recourse would be to get forbis.someOtherTLDThatDoesntDoTieredPricing.

    But From the article

    Vint said it would be "suicide" for a registry to do it, because there'd be the 6-month notice period to raise prices and the ability for registrants to renew for up to 10 years at "old prices", that supposedly "protects" registrants.

    So even if they where going to jack your registration fee, you could still get it for 10 years at 2006 prices.

    --
    To E-mail me, replace the first period in my domain with an @
  5. Re:in our UN ambassadors own words by hex-2e8 · · Score: 2, Informative

    Here it is, John Bolton on the UN http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kg3pgF5EjiA