I work at a registrar, and prices are going up for many domain names. This is driven in large part by the registry operators who set the wholesale price, which registrars then have to pass on the registrants. Notably .com has been driving the increases:
The wholesale price of .com domains was frozen by the U.S. government at $7.85 per year in 2012. It didn’t increase again until September 2021, when prices were increased annually: $8.39 in 2021, $8.97 in 2022, and $9.59 in 2023. That’s where prices are for a couple more weeks; they increase to $10.26 on September 1. All told, Verisign has increased the price by 31% over the past four years. https://domainnamewire.com/2024/08/20/how-domain-registrars-have-increased-com-prices/ Some registrars were able to absorb the price increases from Verisign, others increased immediately, others did over time. What I am also noticing is that many other gTLDs are also raising prices, generally a large number of new gTLDs from a variety of registry operators. I cannot confirm, but I suspect they’re all following Verisign’s example. > On Oct 2, 2024, at 05:34, Mark Milhollan via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> wrote: > > ******************** > CAUTION: > This email originated from outside the organization. Do not click > links unless you can confirm the sender and know the content is safe. > ******************** > > On Wed, 2 Oct 2024, Tony McCrory wrote: >> On Wed, 2 Oct 2024 at 11:51, Otto J. Makela via mailop <mailop@mailop.org> >> wrote: > >>> Do you have recommendations for a good domain registrar which still >>> keeps prices at a reasonable level, > >> I would suggest Cloudflare domain registration. > > They have several things to recommend them but they don't allow you to > delegate the zone elsewhere, at least not at this time and I've no idea if > that's on their roadmap -- some prefer their DNS service provider to be > distinct from their registrar. > > > /mark > _______________________________________________ > mailop mailing list > mailop@mailop.org > https://list.mailop.org/listinfo/mailop
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