VeriSign and other registries are set to increase their wholesale price of domain names effective October 1, 2008.
The new .com price will be $6.86. With ICANN’s 20 cent fee that means the minimum cost to your registrar is $7.06. .Net prices will be $4.23 before ICANN’s fee.
Earlier today Domain Name Wire wrote about GoDaddy’s latest price increase on .net and .org domains, which have shot up about 30% to $13.19 including the ICANN fee.
Almost all of the registries are increasing prices, and eNom sent out a notice today that its More»

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In a move that is expected to add new meaning to the Web as the Wild, Wild, West and make things even more interesting, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) which is responsible for managing the evolution of the Web, is expected to approve new top-level domains (TLD) on Thursday. TLDs comprising of any string of letters such as a company’s name or an individual’s name e.g. .billgates or .apple as well as internationalized domain names that could be written in scripts for Asian and Arabic languages would be possible. Currently, TLDs are limited to business More»

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