Wholesale price for .cc will be $8.00 beginning in May.
Verisign has confirmed to Domain Name Wire that it is reducing the cost of .cc domain names by about half.
Effective May 1, 2016, Verisign is changing the standard pricing for .cc domain names for all registrars worldwide to $8.00 USD for each annual increment of new registrations and renewals.
.Cc domain names have become popular with domain name investors snapping up short and numeric domain names. The price drop should drive further registrations, and also ensure higher renewal rates than what would have been expected.
That said, a $8.00 wholesale price is still much higher than the cost of many new top level domains. Many registries are offering domains to Chinese domain name investors for a retail cost of a dollar or two per year.
I hope the .CO people are seeing this, they should be next to drop renewal rates to something more reasonable.
That’s still a bit much to pay for branding liability. The risk exposure is that someone eventually pipes up, ‘So, you’re declaring that that country is so irrelevant that their whole national presence can be disappeared under the ‘Merican capitalist footprint.’
Millions of kids in these countries are growing up with this weird ‘nullified’ status. It’s not exactly Bechtel and Bolivian rainwater, but it is in questionable taste. US business wouldn’t pull this on France without some nervous looks. (You don’t exist, you’re freight industry!) No .fr way.
Referring here to these suffixes: (From Slate.com).
.tv (Tuvalu): used by the media industry
.fm (Federated States of Micronesia): used by the media industry
.am (Armenia): used by the media industry
.mu (Mauritius): used by music websites
.ac (Ascension Island): used by education-related websites
.re (Réunion): used by real-estate agents
.ws (Samoa): used as an abbreviation for “web site”
.me (Montenegro): used for personal websites
.cc (Cocos Islands): used as an alternative to .com (administered by VeriSign)
.cm (Cameroon): used as an alternative to .com (as a way of exploiting typing errors)
.nu (Niue): means “now” in Danish, Dutch, and Swedish
.as (American Samoa): the suffixes “AS” and “A/S” are used in some countries (e.g. Norway, Denmark, and the Czech Republic) for joint stock companies
.io (British Indian Ocean Territory): used by start-up companies
.st (São Tomé and Príncipe): is used around the world in several ways
.tk (Tokelau): the .tk domain can (unusually) be registered for no monetary cost. This has meant that there are over 17 million domains registered to the country (which is more than the total registered in the UK).
.co (Colombia): used as an alternative to .com (as a way of exploiting typing errors)
.md (Moldova): used by medical doctors.