eNom Announces .Com Price Increases
Wednesday, May 19th, 2010
Here come the price increase notices.
It’s that time of year again, when domain name registrars send out notices to their customers about .com price increases. We actually got a reprieve last year as VeriSign didn’t increase prices. But they’re back this year, to the extent allowed: 7% for .com and 10% for .net at the wholesale level.
eNom sent a notice to its customers today with .com increases of 55 cents across the board effective July 1:
Tier / OLD Tier Pricing / New Tier Pricing
PREMIER $7.95 $8.50
VOLUME $8.95 $9.50
BASIC $9.95 $10.50
ALTERNATIVE $10.95 $11.50
The wholesale price for a .com will be $7.34 to VeriSign and $.18 to ICANN, or $7.52. Throw in overhead and domain names remain a very low margin product.
Go Daddy informed clients of the price increase a couple months ago, but I haven’t seen its new pricing.
One surefire way to save money: renew your domains before the June 30 deadline.
Has your registrar announced its new prices? Please note the change in the comments.
Further Reading:
- .Com and .Net Price Increases Announced
- Neustar Announces .Biz Price Increase
- Renew Domain Names Before October Price Increases
Tags: eNom
The way I look at it, it’s not a bad thing due to the reason that there will be less competition out there to grab good generic domains.
just got a mail from dynadot telling abt increase in price too
Netlynx.com announce it too.
.com >> 8.25 – 9.49 USD ( from present 7.59 – 8.99 USD )
Almost 50 – 60 cent price increase.
For anyone who didn’t catch it, Enom also raised the prices for .us, .org, and .biz for which there was no registry price increase. This is quite a sleazy move by Enom. I’m not surprised though, given their acquirethisname.com front for selling their clients’ expired domain names at a hugely inflated cost.