If you own .com's/.net's ..bend down and grab your ankles! PRICE HIKE!
 

The annual price of a .com or .net domain name will almost certainly rise this year, according to Stratton Sclavos, chief executive of VeriSign Inc, which runs the two namespaces.

http://www.cbronline.com/article_new...5-359B4EC8E9B2

Fuck me, even a small increase is going to HURT for large domain portfolio owners! :(

Horrible news. :(

FightTheDomainHike.com Donate Now and write a letter to your local congressman

hehe ..it's a little late for that. :winkwink:

they should go down

Logic dictates that prices should go south, but greed doesn't. What exactly are we going to get for the price increase anyways? More security, new infrastructure ..what? It's nothing but a money grab IMHO, ..a license to legally print money. :mad:

Whats your adress? :upsidedow

Damn I see people clipping part of their portfolio.

I wonder how much the increase will be.

Guess we better add some years to our
portfolio now to pay the current prices.

A rise of 7% on $6 means the wholesale price of a .com cannot rise to more than $6.42 per domain this year. For .net, the price could go up 10% from $4.25 to $4.67 per domain per year.

I think I can afford the increase

Yes, at 7% that's roughly $.46 cents for me, so that works out to be around $1,641.50 extra per year.

Then 7% the next year, and so forth.. It could get expensive.

it sucks

Cost of doing business.

Renew them now for 5 or 10 years.

That is such bullshit.

Fuck VeriSign, fuck Stratton Sclavos, and especially fuck ICANN.

ICANN is supposed to be looking out for the public interest, and they are aren't doing their job.

:mad

Thats going to suck major dick

renewal time!

I'm sure they'll think of that and make additional money owed.. :)