Domain pricing increase effective Jan 15

As previously pre-announced via our status feed, the cost of domain registrations will be going up on January 15th, 2012 from $8.99/year to $9.49/year.

There’s really not much to add other than that. This is in response to a change by our registrar, who are responding to Verisign once again exercising the “because we said so” clause in their license to print money, which allows them to raise prices by a percentage every year for no reason at all.

We do have long-term plans in this area, including trying to break loose pricing on gTLDs other than .com to help them compete, but nothing coming to fruition in a timeframe that would affect any decision making anyone has to do about this.

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1. Bummer… Thanks for the honest assessment.

   Nick

   Comment by Nick — January 11, 2012 #

2. > but nothing coming to fruition in a timeframe that would affect any decision making anyone has to do about this.

   I read this sentence three times and it still doesn’t make sense.

   Comment by TerrorBite — January 12, 2012 #

3. It just means don’t interpret “we’re not happy about this and want to do something about it” as “hold off your renewals because we have a great plan that will fix everything any minute.” Any plans we have are too long-term to matter right now.

   Comment by jdw — January 12, 2012 #

4. Crap. Register ALL THE DOMAINS now! 😛

   Comment by Chris Chapman — January 12, 2012 #

5. How can we help with these mysterious long-term plans? 🙂 I’m feeling punchy after that whole SOPA thing.

   Comment by WarpZone — January 21, 2012 #

6. Not much to do with those plans right now. (PHP 5.4, IPv6, and SSL are all more important.)

   Please expend excess punchiness left over after SOPA on PCIP, the “Protecting Children from Internet Pornographers” act, which requires us (and all your other online service providers) to log all your IP information for “at least” 18 months. (This is, incidentally, the legislation some people expect certain SOPA provisions to reappear in.)

   Comment by jdw — January 26, 2012 #

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