Expect to pay $10 or less starting October 1.
New top level domain name registrar Donuts is continuing to play with pricing.
Earlier this year it announced a 50% wholesale price hike for ten domain names, including as .dog, .camera and .plumbing. The price hike goes into effect October 1.
Now it’s substantially lowering prices on .business and .company domain names, also beginning October 1.
The company says the move “better aligns registration prices with emerging market pricing for fully generic TLDs and further facilitates their bundling into fixed price web presence and hosting packages.”
It sounds like Donuts might be eyeing China for growth.
Crucially, domain names that have already been registered in these two domain names will be grandfathered in a negative way. They will continue to renew and transfer at the original prices, even if they are deleted and subsequently re-registered.
While Donuts doesn’t reveal wholesale pricing, domain name registrar Hexonet will be charging less than $10 per registration beginning October 1.
OpticalOwl says
That’s ridiculous. So even if another registrant drops the name, another person goes and registers it, you still pay the old pricing?
What BS!
Andrew Allemann says
They’ve essentially marked them as premiums. I think the point is to prevent people from dropping a name on purpose and re-registering it to get a lower price. Or maybe it’s just easier technically to keep it on a separate list.
Nick says
why get a crazy long.business when you have get nice and short .biz , .biz, the best new gtld
OpticalOwl says
.BIZ and .INFO look like better extensions the more I read about new gTLD shenanigans. 🙂
Snoopy says
What is a better, a black banana or a rotten potato? Doesn’t matter which is better all 4 are all really bad extensions.
new.life says
who knows…
.onl – 5800 .online – 388 000 registrations
.onl – 2.5 years old, .online – 1 year…
Anonymous says
I didn’t even know “onl” was short for “online” …I had to look it up.
new.life says
Short cut: http://nic.onl/
But I have zero .onl
Because I like new domains with meaning for example black.coffee even fresh.fish or hacks like tele.marketing etc.
All mine… )
Nick says
.onl, what in the world? is that a real thing? It that really supposed to mean .online ? just looks like a Netherlands typo. .biz is the best new gtld cause it is 3 letters and can be pronounced. Wonder how people say .onl out loud when telling someone their site.
new.life says
I have zero .onl and your question not for me! ) and only one .biz – ssex.biz )) hand reg…
new.life says
I have just two of each, just in case – world.company and super.business (renewal – 15$ and 30$ each)
Steve says
I prefer OFL (offline) to ONL (online) LOL
Bottom Line (BOL): how did 95% of the GTLDS get approved
Please someone take some truth serum and finally say, “we had to scrub millions of dollars”
At least I’ll know there was a reason
Mansour says
Even if they drop the price to 10 cent NO change Chinese do not know how to spell business.