ICANN fee for renewal ?

[URLtrader]

Hi,

I renewed a .biz today at godaddy and they charged me $4.95 plus $0.25 which was mentioned as ICANN fee. Never noticed such a fee before. Any one else saw/paid such a fee ?

Thanks,
URLtrader

 

[aww]

On November 1st ICANN raised their fee from 5 cents to 25 cents for all registrars (on certain domains) to pay for their insane new budget.

While registrars absorbed the 5 cents, GoDaddy has decided to pass long the cost of 25 cents and therefore make 5 cents more per domain. Sounds small but probably will add up over the next hundred thousand domains they sell ($5,000?).

Note that most other registrars have not seperated the ICANN fee and passed it to consumers yet but they might be a trend started I fear.

 

[URLtrader]

Thanks for this information.

 

[guiwang]

I think it's not happen in enom,right?

 

[Tippy]

I've been paying this .25 fee now for the past 2 months at WWD/GD resellers, or at least the one I use.

Mike

 

[aww]

I think it's not happen in enom,right?

Not yet, but who knows, they could be coding it in right now.
Five cents is one thing, but I can't say I blame them for 25 cents to cause a price increase somehow.

It will be hard to remember to be angry at ICANN not the registrar.
Very sneaky what they did. The other option was huge registrar fees which would have crushed out the smaller competition.
I am not sure which situation is better, the consumer loses in the end.