VeriSign to Increase .Com .Net Prices 7% In October

[mandy]

Exercising its contractual right to raise prices, VeriSign is once again increasing the base registration fees for .com and .net domain names. It's the second increase in as many years since the company extended its control of those two TLDs in 2006.

Currently, registrars pay VeriSign $6.42 per .com domain and $3.85 for .net domains. Come October, those prices will increase to $6.86 and $4.23, respectively. Those price hikes are the maximum 7 percent allowable (to the penny) under VeriSign's contract (which runs through 2012) with ICANN. Chances are, registrars will pass the price increase on to customers...

full article: http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/200...a-row.html

[regic]

Those price hikes are the maximum 7 percent allowable (to the penny) under VeriSign's contract (which runs through 2012) with ICANN.

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