Prices for .com and .net domains will increase!
April 6th, 2007 by Andreas from Xavier Media® in Uncategorized. Topics: HTML & The Web, Top Level Domains, Verisign & NetSolI just read some awful news: The prices for domain names will go up! According to Domain Tools Verisign will be allowed to increase domain prices by 7% per year for 4 of the next 6 years. They can also increase prices two more times if it's necessary for for security or stability. In other words we should prepare us for 6 price increases!
Registrars should be able to see these price increases if Verisign are allowed to increase prices with 7% per year:
New price: $6.42
Year 2: $6.87
Year 3: $7.35
Year 4: $7.86
Year 5: $8.42
Year 6: $9.00
The registrars will of course pass the price increases on to their customer (us, the domain name owners) 
It's time to do something about the Verisign monopoly!
About the authorAndreas co-founded Xavier Media® in 1996 and has since been involved in all kinds of development, marketing and making money online.
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