Wholesale .com Registration Prices Increase 7% Each Year, to Hit $15.35 by 2022

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In case you haven’t heard yet, the big story of the day is the increase in dot com registration price by nearly 7% every year. The wholesale price of .com registration is expected to hit $10.29 by 2016, up from $7.85 in 2012, as the DomainNameWire reports. Going by this trend, wholesale .com registration price [...]

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[Poker]

As holders of many millions of .coms (Global .com domainers) I wonder if we could band together on this issue as it affects us all, especially if Verisign is just being a greedy glutton.

Sucks bigtime that we already don't really own any of our domains...we are being played for chumps.

 

[sashas]

As holders of many millions of .coms (Global .com domainers) I wonder if we could band together on this issue as it affects us all, especially if Verisign is just being a greedy glutton.

Sucks bigtime that we already don't really own any of our domains...we are being played for chumps.

While it won't bother me one bit if renewal costs for a domain like CheapTravel.com or DebitCards.com goes up to even $100/year, the increased price means that I can't register domains like FindCheapAirTickets.com or even brandables such as Googo.com since there is no guarantee if these will make enough money to warrant spending $15 on renewal.