Comments on: Renew Domain Names Before October Price Increases

By: OpenSRS Reseller Services » OpenSRS Reseller Blog » Blog Archive » Registry Fees Set to Rise Again

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 14:37:57 +0000

[...] Go Daddy has increased the retail price of .NET and .ORG to a whopping 13 bucks. Domain Name Wire has more. [...]

By: savinDomains.com

savinDomains.com — Fri, 26 Sep 2008 16:57:11 +0000

As a domain reseller, we’ve certainly are feelling the effects for the price changes. Our customers have had the luxury of receiving a $6.95 new regisration and transfer rate for a long time. I find it’s defintely one of the cheapest domain name registration places in the industry, without having to pay any sort of membership fee. Thanks you Verisign, I hope this buys the execs a new G5….

By: Domain Name Wire » News » Moniker Drops .Com to $7.29 Ahead of Registry Fee Hikes - The Domain Industry's News Source

Thu, 11 Sep 2008 19:45:32 +0000

[...] of which registrar you use, it makes sense to look at your new few months of registrations and renew them early. Keep in mind that you can renew your good domains today for 10 years at current prices. VeriSign [...]

By: Andrew

Andrew — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 14:29:50 +0000

Zach, it remains to be seen if GoDaddy will raise its price when VeriSign raises it next month. But I suspect that it will keep it at $9.99 (really 10.19 with fees). After all, it raised the price on .com $1.00 when VeriSign raised prices only 42 cents last time.

By: Zach Wingo

Zach Wingo — Tue, 02 Sep 2008 05:35:24 +0000

It occurred to me that Godaddy didn’t raise the price of their .com domains which I assume is their big seller. For this reason, I am assuming they decided to raise the price of .net and .org domains which have a higher profit margin to allow them to keep the .com at the same price as others companies raise theirs.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:53:24 +0000

Thanks Ken. I know that GoDaddy has fought the increases in the past. Several registrars do have prices that correlate, charging less for .net.

By: Ken Schafer - OpenSRS

Ken Schafer - OpenSRS — Fri, 29 Aug 2008 17:29:21 +0000

Andrew: You said “big registrars such as GoDaddy have pricing that doesn’t have any correlation to wholesale cost. .Net prices, anyone?”

Actually, OpenSRS uses a very different pricing model than other registrars.

We break out the Registry Fee, ICANN Fee, and our Domain Management Fee separately for maximum transparency. We pass on the actual registry fee and ICANN fee for gTLDs which means our price for .net is considerably lower.

We also throw in DNS Management and WHOIS Privacy as part of the management fee as we think all domains should have those capabilities and they shouldn’t be looked at as premium services as other registrars do.