Help Keep Domain Prices in Check
 

"Businesses want stability. They understand that domain prices increase over time but want predictability.

Imagine if next year you had to pay 10 times as much to renew your domain name as you paid this year. Based on an action proposed by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), price caps could be removed on several top level domains, which could significantly increase the price of domains.

Find out what’s happening—and how to take action to stop this change before April 29."

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Implementing this plan is basically extortion of current domain registrants. ICANN is like organized crime. They're proposing removing the price caps now. But it wouldn't surprise me if ICANN announces a future plan, to change their fees from a fixed amount, to a percentage of the domain registration/renewal fees.

this is just for .org/.net/.info?

You can thank Obama for cutting ICANN loose from the US government.

For now it's .org, .info and .biz. I doubt ICANN could pull this off with .com and .net without receiving major backlash from huge companies that have hordes of lawyers on retainer.

That's just what I was thinking too.