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"Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze
by arkitaip 7y ago
"Verisign will be allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023. After a two year “freeze”, Verisign can increase prices by 7% annually during 2026-2029, then another two year “freeze”. This cycle will continue, meaning that within 10 years, .COM domains could cost approximately 70% more than the current wholesale price of $7.85 — and the sky is the limit."
- losteric 7y ago70%?! Wow, that's enough to fund all kinds of innovation in the domain name space.
- vajrabum 7y agoIf by innovation you mean raise salaries, hire new people and add to your management consulting contracts sure.
- BitwiseFool 7y ago*raise executive salaries
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- dmos62 7y agoLet us appreciate that ICANN doesn't manage access to other public resources, like water or healthcare.
- icedchai 7y agoAbsurd, especially considering domains used to be free (before 1997.) They did, on the other hand, sometimes take a month to register.
- gscott 7y agoThen .com became $100 a year... maybe they are hoping to get back to that level.