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March 27, 2008 Post

Here's the The Lowdown from DNJournal.com! Updated daily to fill you in on the latest buzz going around the domain name industry!

Compiled by Ron Jackson (Editor/Publisher)

 

Domain owners are about to make another multi-million dollar payment on the "give away the ranch" contract ICANN handed Verisign a couple of years ago. Verisign announced today 

that for the second year in a row they are hiking the wholesale price of .com and .net domain names (the price they charge registrars) by the full maximum allowed (7%) in the sweetheart deal they wangled from ICANN in the face of near unanimous opposition from the Internet community. 

Starting in October registrars will have to fork over $6.86 per .com (up from today's $6.42) and $4.23 

for .nets (up from $3.85). Registrars, as they did after last year's price hike, will pass the higher costs along to their customers - in other words you. Even worse, judging from what happened last time, many registrars will take the opportunity to charge more for all extensions - not just coms and nets, so owners of other TLDs will get hit too. 

Domain owners continue to be under assault from every direction, including in the U.S. Congress where predators hope to change the law of the land via the proposed Snowe bill so they can more easily take away domain assets outright. Yet many domain owners continue to fiddle while Rome burns. If you don't want to fight for you assets be assured that you will lose them. The only other viable option currently on the table is to join other domain owners in the Internet Commerce Association and go on the offensive in what is shaping up as the biggest land grab in recent business history.  
(Posted March 26, 2008) 


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