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VeriSign’s Registry Fee Hike – In Retrospect

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The Registry fee for .COM and .NET will increase 2 days from now. The fee for .COM domain names have increased from $7.34 to $7.85 and the fees for .NET domain names have increased from $5.40 to $5.86.

This is the last of the 4 price hikes that Verisign is entitled to, under contract with ICANN.

Here’s a quick summary of the price changes so far:

Why does Verisign keep increasing .COM/.NET fees?

According to them; in the last five years, the volume of DNS queries on Verisign’s global Internet infrastructure has more than doubled, increasing to an average daily query load of 57 billion in the first quarter of 2011. This daily number was ~30 billion queries on average in 2007 and was a miniscule of 1 billion queries per day back in 1999.

The additional fees help the company bolster and scale infrastructure and platforms to ensure smooth functioning of these systems.

* Data sourced from Verisign.com

Announcements, Industry News, Registries

Verisign Domain Name Industry Brief – Feb ’11

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Every quarter, Verisign reviews the state of the domain name industry and highlights important trends, growth opportunities and key performance indicators through in-depth research and analysis. This provides a holistic view of the domain industry and can help businesses make accurate forecasts.

Highlights of the Feb 2011 report include:

  • The fourth quarter of 2010 closed with a base of more than 205.3 million domain name registrations across all Top Level Domains (TLDs), an increase of 3.5 million domain names, or 1.7 percent over the third quarter

  • Registrations have grown by 12.1 million, or 6.3 percent over the past year

  • The .com and .net TLDs reached a combined total of approximately 105.2 million names

  • The base of Country Code Top Level Domains (ccTLDs) was 80.1 million domain names, a 1.1 percent increase quarter over quarter, and a 0.3 percent increase year over year

  • The order of the top TLDs in terms of zone size changed only slightly compared to the third quarter, as .org moved from fifth to fourth largest TLD, dropping .uk (united Kingdom) from fourth to fifth.

You can view the complete Brief here – http://verisigninc.com/assets/domain-name-report-feb-2011.pdf

Announcements

.COM and .NET TLDs – Now Separate Products in the LogicBoxes System

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Adapting to the recent gTLD pricing changes, we have split the .COM and .NET TLDs such that pricing for each TLD can be set independent of the other.

As the 2 TLDs are now priced very differently, we believe that this split should help you offer .NET domains at a much lower price as compared to .COM domains.

We recommend that you change your .NET pricing right away, and begin offering the TLD at a better price to your customers and resellers.

For more information on how to change your pricing, please click here.

We hope that our efforts will help you offer a competitive proposition in the price sensitive domain market.

As always, please feel free to contact your LogicBoxes Account Manager for any further assistance that you may need.