Price relief for .com registrants takes a step back with Trump’s win.
It might seem trivial to talk about Donald Trump’s win and its impact on domain names, but this is a blog about domain names, so here we go.
Trump’s victory likely seals the fate of the price Verisign (NASDAQ: VRSN) can charge for .com domain names.
Under the Obama administration, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) froze wholesale prices on .com domain names. Under the Trump administration, the NTIA removed this freeze and allowed Verisign to increase .com prices by 7% in the last four of every six years of its contract. The contract also required mutual agreement between Verisign and the NTIA to change the terms of the agreement.
There has been talk over the past year about reining in these price increases, but this seems very unlikely in light of Trump’s win. It seems doubtful that the administration would reverse its prior decision. The Justice Department is also less likely to push antitrust claims than the Biden administration.
In fact, I would expect Verisign to push the NTIA to relax .com price controls further going forward.
Some clueless people saying Trump’s Administration will fix current inflation when they were the #1 cause for non-stop domain inflation prices. Servers are absurdly more powerful than 20-25-30 years ago, the core autopilot costs went down but they will find ways to artificially bump them on bonuses and payouts to justify costs and keeping a monopoly that was delivered to them on a silver platter. GG.
you should have posted this 3 months ago
What do verisign and ntia do actually??
Some US domainers voted for Trump again. Thanks for that. Now Verisign will get whatever they want.
You Voted with your wallets again instead of your brains. We know who you are. You’re bragging about Trump online on Twitter and domain blogs.
Trump was the only choice on the ballot for a sane voter.