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ICANN fee price hike by 11% [pdf]
- Aeolun 1y agoSo they multiply that 3.8M by the number of registrars active, and then divide the total amount based on what they feel is fair for all registrars?
- lysace 1y ago[flagged]
- Arnt 1y agoThose projects are funded from auctions around 2012 and fund management since, which is a fund separate from ICANN's own accounting. Some people really, really wanted .blog or whatever, and the proceeds of the resulting auctions went into a fund that was to be spent on… I'm not well informed, but the money for at least one of those projects came from that fund. The others may too. https://domainincite.com/20440-wordpress-reveals-it-bought-blog-for-19-million https://domainincite.com/20440-wordpress-reveals-it-bought-b... Domain Incite also has other articles covering this subject area, some with profanity, all well-informed. These price hikes have a simple reason: ICANN's per-year per-domain fee was not adjusted by inflation and most of the expenses do grow with inflation. No matter how well or badly ICANN spends its money, at some point a flat price was going to run into inflation-bound expenses and lose. Feel free to criticise the Māori project, or ICANN's arguably wasteful meetings, or whatever you want, but please don't confuse the money in that fund with the budget for ICANN's operations.
- lysace 1y agoThanks for the correction. I see now that this is also covered here: https://www.icann.org/grant-program-en/#faqs https://www.icann.org/grant-program-en/#faqs
- Sohcahtoa82 1y agoDon't bother asking why they're raising the prices. They'll just say "Because ICANN".
- em3rgent0rdr 1y agoReminds me of the "WESAYSO" company in the 1990s sitcom Dinosaurs.
- ompogUe 1y agoReminds me of Apple's "Sosumi" system sound.
- stock_toaster 1y agoPrices raised due to the tariff on strings. /s
- bsder 1y agoSorry, but I want those transaction fees to go up. A LOT. Like one or two orders of magnitude. There are far too many domains that are "parked" because those transaction fees are so low. Add an extra zero and most of those domains will unlock.
- wmf 1y agoYeah, but the money should go anywhere but the parasitic hive of lawyers known as ICANN.
- ok_dad 1y agoNo thanks, I have two domains for my personal use and they shouldn’t cost me like two hundred bucks a year, that’s insane to pay a middleman for that.
- nandomrumber 1y agoYeah, like, what’s the marginal cost for, say, a thousand additional domain names? Nothing.
- maxclark 1y ago[flagged]
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- kingforaday 1y agoTurns out you indeed can. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171652#44175257 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44171652#44175257
- edm0nd 1y agoyou can fucking swear here
- karunamurti 1y agoI swear your font color is different
- thrance 1y agoIt's what happens when a comment gets downvoted. It's got nothing to do with swearing, which is perfectly allowed indeed.
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- higgins 1y ago[flagged]
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- OutOfHere 1y agoAlways use the cheapest TLDs. There is no reason to give ICANN more money. It works the same.
- edm0nd 1y ago[flagged]
- Kye 1y agoBluesky's moderation team contact email is on .xyz
- strictnein 1y agoEnterprises are increasingly blocking a lot of the random TLDs. So unless you want your service and site to be inaccessible for people with deep pockets, avoid most TLDs.
- icepush 1y agoCheck out this official site: https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/
- OutOfHere 1y agoThat's a baseless generalization. I love .top and I use it for regular services. Just because scammers use it doesn't mean that others don't.
- mikeevans 1y agoThere are a few companies that you might know of that use it, like https://block.xyz/ https://block.xyz/ and https://abc.xyz/ https://abc.xyz/
- brewdad 1y agoCool. Novelty domains for well established dot coms. Now go build a startup that you expect to build up and still own yourself 10 years from now using a .xyz domain. Good luck.
- destructionator 1y agolol "11%" i guess sounds a lot bigger than "two cents".
- edoceo 1y agoOne reason to pay the rent 10 years at a time, for domains you want to "keep"
- brewdad 1y agoYou have to weigh that against investing, even in just a HYSA, that 10 year outlay. Not a big deal if you only have a couple domains but it can add up quickly. This isn’t an 11% hike to the total cost of the domain it’s more like .2% on a typical $10 fee.
- phendrenad2 1y agoThis is a price hike to gTLD providers by ICANN.
- TZubiri 1y agoThis looks to be a 2c price increase. The ICANN fee is rising from 18c/yr to 20c/yr The other fee that rose recently and is more significant, (around 8USD/yr) is set by Verisign, who operates the popular TLD .com
- wnevets 1y agoReally need to add (2 cents) to the title. There are people in the comments who think it's 11% of the domain purchase price.
- goku12 1y agoAny reason to think that the ultimate effect of this fee hike won't be the increased cost of domain names? That too, more than 11% perhaps?
- wmf 1y agoA domain costs ~$10. ICANN used to take 18 cents and now it's 20 so maybe domains will cost $10.02.
- wnevets 1y ago> Any reason to think that the ultimate effect of this fee hike won't be the increased cost of domain names? Any reason to think that it would be more than 2 cents?
- goku12 1y agoI don't know. I was genuinely asking for the reasoning. I'm not familiar with the cost breakup.
- charcircuit 1y agoI think it would be interesting if Google were to compete against the ICANN monopoly with their own DNS system.
- NegativeK 1y agoUnless ICANN is selling information about us, that sounds like a huge downgrade.
- charcircuit 1y agoICANN requires accurate personal information from you which is worse than what a Google account requires. A competitor to ICANN could be more private by not requiring a dox of everyone who wants a domain.
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