.com and .net Fees Set To Rise In October

April 15, 2008

Watch out! If you are a domainer or are those people that register domain names for may be “Future projects” the .com & .net will rise again in october. In October 1, 2008 will be the second time that .com and .net will be rise up this year. Let’s analyze it a little bit and see how it can affect the industry or the internet:

Rising the .com and .net domain name I think it will give more value to those domains. In the future I will see .com and .net more expensive that are nowadays.
It will give a chance to another extensions like .biz & .info which have a bad “fame” to be for spammers. I don’t agree with that.
If the domain names will be more expensive spammers and scrappers will think it twice before registering a domain name and waste money just to “spam”. A lot of spammers have very limited budget and that’s why they buy domain names with “Offers” like godaddy offering .info domain names for $0.99.
May be if the prices goes up those domainers that are not using good domain names, will drop them and someone else that want to make a real project can take it.

Taken from SFgate:

Fees for using two of the most common suffixes for Internet addresses are going up for a second consecutive year.

VeriSign Inc., the company that keeps the master list of domain names ending in “.com” and “.net,” said that effective Oct. 1, the annual fee for “.com” names will go up 7 percent to $6.86 and the “.net” fee will increase 10 percent to $4.23.

The fees are what VeriSign charges companies that sell domain names on its behalf, and those charges are generally incorporated into the prices that companies, groups and individuals ultimately pay to register names.

VeriSign could make up to $37 million a year from the increase, with some 75 million “.com” names and 11 million “.net” names in use. The price hike, however, applies only at renewal and to new registrations, and many resellers offer discounts on multiyear deals.

VeriSign recently announced plans to further improve security and increase capacity for the servers that keep track of “.com” and “.net” names. Computers from around the world check them continually to find out how to reach “.com” and “.net” Web sites and pass along e-mail.

The price hike, disclosed in a letter to the Internet’s key oversight agency, does not require any regulatory approval.

So before October comes, get the domain that you want with cheap prices with the following registrars: Dotster & Godaddy.