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VeriSign Jacks Up .com, .net Prices To the Max
se7en writes "VeriSign is jacking up prices for the .com and .net domains for the second year running, increasing both by the maximum 7% allowed under its exclusive contract with ICANN. 'Assuming that VeriSign continues the 7 percent rise each year (which seems reasonable given the company's history), registrars will be looking at $9.00 for .com domains by the time the current contract ends in 2012 — a 50 percent increase in six years.' Registrars have no choice but to pony up, and chances are they'll pass the pain on to customers."
Is there any reason Verisign wouldn't jack up prices by the max allowed in their contract?
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Given the recent drop of the value of the dollar, that means that much of the rest of the world whose currency isn't based on the US dollar will see a 1% price drop, instead of a 8% price drop.
I dont understand- is this entry a joke? This is about as ground-breaking as "a local McDonald's increases $1 menu to $1.05 menu!" In other news, inflation was 8% last year!
The problem is that "lay-people" consider .com to be "it". And if you register "my-indie-band.org" some squatter WILL register "my-indie-band.com" ... and when your fans go to look you up they'll type in the ".com" before the ".org".
Is it bullshit ? Yeah, absolutely. Is there much we can do about it ? Not really.
Unlikely. A couple of extra bucks wont do anything.
Why do we have TLDs anymore, anyway? Why can't I just register http://yourname/ ? Since their original intent is both broken (not all .coms are commercial etc) and obsolete (people just google for things anyway), why don't we just say that a domain is a string of alphanumeric characters terminated by a /
The only real competition that the government cares about is who can shove the most 'campaign funds' into each politician's pockets.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
HAHAHAHAHA... oh, you were serious??
I think changing policies on domain tasting would do a hell of a lot more.
I only post comments when someone on the internet is wrong.
If you have a band, even an indie band, and you're selling stuff or live performances, wouldn't that classify as "commercial" enough for a .com domain?
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First of all, that's debatable. Dotcom has stopped meaning "commercial website" long before the dotcom boom. If you want a .com for your cat page, that's fine. Second, the .net TLD is no alternative either, because that's another Verisign domain which just got more expensive.
.com is a proper website and the rest is for the amateurs. There should be thousands of TLDs, so that there can be actual competition between registries in terms of infrastructure quality, service and price. There should be thousands of TLDs, so that you can get a domain from a registry in a country of your choice without making people think of your domain as targeted to the people of that country. There should be thousands of TLDs, so that companies no longer feel compelled to own their name under all TLDs.
The whole idea of limiting TLDs to a few category-like names (outside of CCTLDs) is the primary economic problem with the domain name system. DNS is not a directory and can't be one. Domain names are administrative boundaries, not content descriptors. There should be thousands of TLDs, so that there is enough variation that you have to pay attention to the "suffix" of a domain. Then people wouldn't so easily think that
I have a shorter version: "Allow Bayesian filtering."
apparently you don't run a bunch of non-profit sites on your own dime or with a limited budget. Thanks for your support.
For legitimate users the domain is the least expensive part of running a website. For squatters, who generally have thousands upon thousands of domains all pointing to one or a handful of servers, it's not.
Or it wouldn't be if not for domain kiting.
A 7% increase is nothing for spammers.
Especially if they are also scammers who don't pay their bills in the first place.