Why Namecheap fought against uncapped domain prices, and what it means for the domain industry. When ICANN removed price caps on .org and .info domains a few years ago, domain name registrar Namecheap didn’t sit by idly. It challenged the removal ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
How to find the lowest prices for domain registrations
· Domain RegistrarsThis website helps you find the best domain pricing. Let me start this post with a warning: never, ever select a domain name registrar based on price alone. Make sure you trust them. Learn about their customer service. There's more to a domain ... Continue Reading2 Comments
What impact will increased .com prices have on domain investing?
· Domain SalesInvestors would have two ways to cope with rising prices. American Enterprise Institute submitted a comment (pdf) to ICANN about .com pricing during the comment period. Much of it echos Verisign's own comments on the matter, and that shouldn't be ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Last chance to weigh in on .Biz domain price increases
· Policy & LawComment period ends next week. People paid a lot of attention to ICANN's proposal to remove price caps on .Org domain names. Some paid attention to .info. Now is your last chance to weigh in on ICANN's proposal to remove price restrictions on .Biz ... Continue Reading8 Comments
The economics of domain name prices
· Policy & LawICANN has a duty to cap renewal prices of domain names. Today is the last day to comment on ICANN's proposal to lift price caps on .org and .info domain names. If approved, the registries that run .org and .info will be able to raise prices as ... Continue Reading20 Comments
Time is running out to reject unlimited .Org (and other) prices
· Policy & LawOne week left to have your say on unrestricted registry prices for legacy TLDs. Last month, ICANN dropped a bomb on the domain name industry with a proposal to lift all price restrictions on .org and .info domain names. It later proposed the same ... Continue Reading22 Comments
A TLD registry just slashed its wholesale prices up to 97%
· UncategorizedThis company is taking the opposite approach of Uniregistry. Will it work? In light of Uniregistry's sharp price increases for registering and renewing many of its top level domain names, it was interesting to learn this week that another registry is ... Continue Reading27 Comments
How to find the lowest prices on domain names
· Domain RegistrarsCompare registrar pricing on domain names. When you own hundreds, thousands or more domain names, registration and renewal prices matter. While .com prices don't vary much from registrar to registrar, prices on new TLDs and country code domains can ... Continue Reading11 Comments
What kind of domains are selling for under $1,000?
· Domain SalesSome are obvious -- but the delineation between under $1,000 and $3,000 is quite small. When Afternic sends its weekly sales reports it omits domains that sold for under $1,000. Yet understanding which types of domains are selling for three figures can ... Continue Reading2 Comments