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Renew your domains this week!
October 10th, 2007 by 
Jay Westerdal
DotCom prices go up October 15th. Verisign and other registries will be raising rates for registrars on that date. The top-level domains being effected are .com, .net, .org, .info .biz, .us and .name. On Monday, most registrars will be directly passing that cost on to their customers. If you own over 100 domains, you can save over $100 by renewing earlier than your auto-renewal date. If you own over 100,000 domains, you can save, well, a lot of money. Most big portfolio owners pay for domains one year at a time. If a domain expires in 30 or 60 days, most registrars will renew it for their customer if they have selected the auto-renew function. The registrar will bill the same credit card that is on-file.
eNom has already announced their price increases for October 15th. From what I hear, most registrars that have expensive domains like Dotster will not be increasing their rates. If a domain is $15 retail, it most likely will stay $15. However Dotster’s other brand, MyDomain.com, that has its lowest rate at $6.62 for over 100 domains will raise its rates. In short, if consumers have a lot of domains, they should renew now.
| eNom Pricing Tiers | Old Pricing | New Pricing |
| PREMIER | $6.95/year | $7.45/year |
| VOLUME | $7.95/year | $8.45/year |
| BASIC | $8.95/year | $9.45/year |
| ALTERNATIVE | $9.95/year | $10.45/year |
| RETAIL | $29.95 /year | $29.95 /year (no change) |
http://www.enom.com/price-notification.asp
Fabulous.com Domains
$7.15 = .com, .info and .org - Renewing/Registering/Transferring:
$5.15 = .net - Renewing/Registering/Transferring:
If you have a link to a registrar’s price increase page, please add it in the comments below and I will add it to the post. I have not been able to find price increase notifications very easily on many registrar websites.
UPDATE: The old price for DotCom to a registrar was $6.20 ($6.00 with Verisign+ $0.20 to ICANN). Now the price is $6.62 ($6.42 to Verisign + $0.20 to ICANN).
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October 10th, 2007 at 2:36 pm
Verisign took $6 for every registration. What are they planning to take now, Jay?
UPDATE BY JAY: $6.42 I believe. So an extra 42 cents. But registrars will see the opportunity and I believe raise it $0.50 or $1.00. So the total cost to a registrar in fees is $6.62 with the $0.20 ICANN fee/tax.
October 10th, 2007 at 2:49 pm
appreciate the reminder.. I went ahead and ramped up for the long term and shelled out over $500..
October 10th, 2007 at 3:56 pm
Remember that ICANN gave those registries approval to raise their prices 3 out of the next 5 years. So there are likely 2 more increases to come before 2012. Can you say “10 year renewal”?
UPDATE BY JAY: Can you earn more then 7% on your money a year? If not, then renew for multiple years else I would just up it for two years.
October 10th, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Answerable.com (a partner registrar of SnapNames) is raising registration prices to $8.49 and transfer prices to $7.49, where they were previously $6.99 and $6.89 respectively.
Namecheap.com (the popular reseller for registrar eNom) is raising registration and transfer prices to $9.29, where they were previously $8.88.
October 11th, 2007 at 4:29 am
1&1 has announced a one-dollar increase.
October 11th, 2007 at 6:59 am
We Godaddy’s resellers will still have good prices, and new registrations will only be $7.99 for .com’s
So keeping prices low is possible. The problem is that some registrars will take this opportunity to make more money.
I haven’t seen many promotion for people to transfer their domains and renew at the same time for multiple years, because many registrars weren’t allowing discount renewals.
I arrived a bit late, but I was offering a better deal that most big registrars and resellers, because I don’t really care about profit margins, but to have new customers and partners.
There is still time to transfer and renew for $6.95, but only for 3 more days.
Nuno Oliveira
Webmasters7.com
Webmasters7.com/reseller.htm
October 11th, 2007 at 9:30 am
These are the prices from Fabulous.com
The new pricing for Wholesale accounts after October 15th is as follows:
.com, .info and .org - Renewing/Registering/Transferring: US$7.15
.net - Renewing/Registering/Transferring: US$5.15
October 11th, 2007 at 12:29 pm
answerable is part of DIRECTI / RESELLER CLUB, no Snapnames.
October 12th, 2007 at 11:14 pm
Got a call from Enom today stating that their premier prices are actually going up to $7.75, not $7.45.
October 13th, 2007 at 2:58 am
This must be the first increase of domain prices in history. Previously prices have always gone down.
Luckily the dollar is weak at the moment so I guess the price increase will not make any big problems for most of the world just yet.
/Andreas
October 15th, 2007 at 6:12 pm
Jay and all,
This doesn’t quite fit here (sorry), but…
I just posted a public service article on my blog that should be of interest to newbie and semi-newbie domainers. Other than the typical Google ads that many of us have on our blogs, I’m not selling anything, but just offering a cautionary tale for prospective domain buyers when they buy and bid on domains: to make sure they know what they are buying.
Some letters look like other letters, etc. I got caught in this situation, so I decided to tell my story, even though I feel foolish and the outcome was favorable.
Go to http://www.WorVV.com (which redirects to my Ms Domainer blog), a domain that will become clear once you read my story.
If you feel that my story is important, please feel free to republish all or part of my post on your blog. Just attribute it to Ms Domainer.
I am sending this to several blogs that I read on a regular basis.
Best Wishes,
Ms Domainer
October 26th, 2007 at 8:44 am
Hello,
pricing at Netlynx.com , An ICANN Accredited Registrar :
Customers: 8.5 USD for .com,..net
Resellers:
.com, .net, .org :: 6.99 USD - 7.99 USD
Regards,
Vinay