Category: Registry Price Increase

Verisign will be increasing the .net pricing as of Feb 1st 2018 at 0000 UTC.

To facilitate the increase, we will be raising the pricing of registration, renewal, transfer and restoration by $1.00 per year as of January 31st 2018 at 2200 UTC.

This is across all tiers.

We have had a rather impulsive update to our pricing which through LogicBoxes is from the registries.

As you will notice most of them are nTLD’s, meaning the new gTLD names are not making as much for the registries as they were hoping and they believe to recoup it is best to “increase” the pricing and catch new registrations, transfers, and renewals (plus restorations). Some over 2000% increase in pricing, namely .HOSTING and .JUEGOS, let alone some being 400% increases – what a con I hear you say, I can’t disagree with you – we are flabbergasted at the short sightedness of the registries in question.

So the first 3 are going live September 1st 2017 at midday BST (11am UTC) :

TLD Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5 Restore

TLD                 Tier 1 Tier 2 Tier 3 Tier 4 Tier 5 Restore
.TV                 $33.00 $32.75 $32.50 $32.25 $31.99 $80.00 C
.SEX, .ADULT, .PORN $86.00 $86.00 $86.00 $86.00 $86.00 $130.00 C
.XXX                $91.00 $90.59 $90.39 $90.19 $89.99 $350.00 NC

We remaining will go live September 7th at 2300 BST (2200 UTC) :

TLD                 Tier 1 - 5  Restore
.CLICK              $11.25      $66.00 NC
.LINK               $9.29       $87.99 C
.HELP, .PICS        $27.25      $100.95 C
.PHOTO              $25.99      $108.95 NC
.TATTOO             $37.99      $108.95 NC
.SEXY               $46.00      $100.95 NC
.CHRISTMAS          $58.95      $108.95 NC
.AUDIO              $119.95     $250.00 C
.BLACKFRIDAY        $119.95     $250.00 C
.PROPERTY, .GUITARS $119.95     $250.00 C
.DIET               $119.95     $250.00 C
.FLOWERS            $124.00     $250.00 C
.HIPHOP             $101.00     $250.00 C
.HOSTING            $330.00     $350.00 C
.JUEGOS             $330.00     $350.00 C

The C and NC at the end mean the Restoration price has changed.

We deeply regret the short notice with the pricing updates above.

Afilias the .INFO registry is increasing its cost price to each ICANN registrar, for registration, renewal or transfer. This will be effective on 30th June 2017, at 22:30 BST.

Therefore the new prices per Tier are :

Tier 1 : $11.49
Tier 2 : $10.95
Tier 3 : $10.90
Tier 4 : $10.75
Tier 5 : $10.55

Restoration pricing will increase by $1.00 to $73.00 which will include 1 year renewal of the domain name.

I am sorry to report that I missed a further 12 Registry alignment pricing adjustments from last weeks email :

The following are ONLY restoration pricing and not any other pricing:

.ACCOUNTANTS     $250   
.BAR             $180
.CREDIT          $300
.CREDITCARD      $300
.GLOBAL          $250
.INVESTMENTS     $250
.JOBS            $350
.LONDON          $100
.LUXURY          $1000
.XYZ             $95
.DONUTS GROUP 2  $95
.DONUTS GROUP 3  $110

.WS pricing will increase by $3.50 for a registration, renewal or transfer – this should have increased in March 2016, but, we have only just found out that the price increased on the LB platform but we did not increase our pricing at that date.

All above pricing will be set on 6th February 2017 at 2200 UTC.

An error in the email that went out earlier this week reported the .BIZ domains going up by $1, when in fact it is $2.00

An email reminder will be sent out and platform notice will be set.

Neustar will be increasing the price of a .biz domain on March 6, 2017.

To facilitate the increase, we will be raising the pricing of registration, renewal, transfer and restoration by $2.00 per year as of March 5th 2017 at 2200 UTC.

This is across all tiers.

The below are all registry increases, the first one .net is a straight increase, whereas the remaining ones are increases in the restoration pricing set by the registry.

Verisign are increasing the .net pricing as of Feb 1st 2017 at 0000 UTC.

To facilitate the increase, we will be raising the pricing of registration, renewal, transfer and restoration by $1.00 per year as of January 31st 2017 at 2200 UTC.

This is across all tiers.

Registry alignment pricing adjustments:

The following are ONLY restoration pricing and not any other pricing:

.BID            $130.00
.BUILD          $140.00
.BUZZ           $120.00
.CHINESE ONLINE $130.00
.DANCE           $95.00
.DEMOCRAT       $105.00
.IMMOBILIEN     $105.00
.INK            $105.00
.MENU           $120.00
.NINJA           $90.00
.REVIEWS        $100.00
.SC             $220.00
.SOCIAL         $110.00
.TRADE          $105.00
.UNO             $95.00
.VC             $150.00
.WEBCAM         $130.00
.WIKI           $100.00

An email reminder will be sent out and platform notice will be set.

All above pricing will be set on 31st January 2017 at 2200 UTC.

Nominet as of the 1st March 2016 will be amending their wholesale pricing for .uk, .co.uk, .org.uk and .me.uk.

The pricing is essentially an eye watering 50% on 2+ year registrations and renewals, and ~10% increase on 1 year registrations/renewals, Nominet’s argument is they have not changed the pricing since 1999, its now time to make a change, and then look at the pricing on a yearly basis.

On the plus side, and I use that term loosely, it now means all years are the same price – still not great mind you.

So the “per year” pricing for a .UK domain (.uk, co.uk, org.uk and me.uk) will be :

Tier 1 : $ 7.39
Tier 2 : $ 7.34
Tier 3 : $ 7.29
Tier 4 : $ 7.19
Tier 5 : $ 7.09

This pricing will become effective on the platform on the 29th February at 2200 UTC.