.com price is going to increase

[paul]

I have heard there is chance in increase in price of .com domain names to every Registrar by 7% every year. Is this true?

[Peter]

Yes, it is true. Details regarding the same can be found here " msnbc.msn.com/id/11104649 "

[Kages]

I dunno, but ICANN is really going to make things expensive for everyone.Like, the domain names, maybe in a hundred years domains will just be ips because of how expensive they will get. Or the domains will cost 100 bucks a year

[tomsr]

I don't know how they can increase the price. What do they acutally do for the money?!

[kev woodman]

The problem here isn't ICANN.

ICANN is a non-profit organisation that is responsible, amongst other things, for the operation of the worldwide Internet naming conventions i.e. the assignation of ip addresses and the creation/maintenance of top level domains.

The operator for .com names is Verisign and it is they who set the 'wholesale' price of this tld to registrars. The 7% figure has been agreed with ICANN as a maximum increase for five of the next seven years.

On the brightside this doesn't mean that other tld administrators will raise their prices (although they may well do). There's also the chance that they will lose their franchise in 2012 when it comes up for renewal.

As for what ICANN do. Well they are one of the governing bodies of the Internet as a whole and are central in lots of different ways to the way the whole shebang works.

Another possible check on Verisign is the expected, slow, growth of IPv6. This provides an almost inexhaustible supply of IP addresses and will likely lead to the creation of more tlds. More tlds means more competition which means that prices should theoretically fall in the long term....probably.

[djpreshit]

Ohh hell,

This is Sad news !!

Really sad !!

[kev woodman]

Why?

And what bit of it is sad?

The price rise? If you're paying $13 dollars-ish for a domain now you might pay 91 cents more - hardly earth shattering. And you might not even pay that because registrars don' have to pass the whole increase on to the end customer. They could reduce their profit margin and go for increased sales.

[sMaRtiEs]

thatss just out of order but if they giving sum extra services and a better one agains the hackers and many other problems then i will be able 2 slice in that price

[kev woodman]

How would registrars give you better protection from hackers. And apart from managing domains what other services could they offer?