Tag: pricing

How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name?

The Startup Domain Name Price Guide from Name Ninja

Bill Sweetman from NameNinja has released a handy little guide to domain name pricing for startups. While the guide is aimed at businesses starting out, the information around domain name pricing is applicable to anyone who wants to either “upgrade” their online brand or launch a new one. The guide focusses primarily on .com domain… Continue reading How Much Should Startups Budget for a Decent Domain Name?

Nominet Announces Increase In Wholesale Pricing

Nominet announced yesterday that they would be increasing the wholesale price of *.uk domain names from March of next year. At the moment the following pricing applies: 1 year registration £3.50 Multi-year registration £2.50 / year From March 2016 the cost per year will be a flat £3.75 / year. The registry’s rationale for the… Continue reading Nominet Announces Increase In Wholesale Pricing

New gTLD Comment Period Closes

ICANN has been holding a public comment period on the second draft of the new gTLD handbook. This period was due to close yesterday. Prior to yesterday afternoon there was a healthy number of comments, but in the past 24 hours a significant number of new comments have been submitted. The tone and content of… Continue reading New gTLD Comment Period Closes

Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?

Image via Wikipedia Jackie Liu’s post on CircleID raises some very interesting questions, though whether or not any answers will be forthcoming or not is a totally different matter. While a lot of ccTLDs are dropping their wholesale rates others are raising them (or have raised them). The problem, as Liu points out, is that… Continue reading Crazy ccTLD Price Hikes?

DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion

While other domain registries seem only to happy to increase their prices this autumn it is refreshing to see that dotMobi won’t. DotMobi have been offering registrars promotional pricing for most of this year, although they were meant to be halting the promotion during the autumn. They have now revealed that they will be continuing… Continue reading DotMobi Extends Pricing Promotion

Domain Pricing Reminder

Don’t forget that the cost of many gTLDs (com/net/org/info/biz) will be increasing this weekend, so if you want to renew your domains now is the time to do it!

Domain Pricing – What’s Going On?

Domain pricing is always an emotive subject. In recent discussions among Nominet members it came up as part of a discussion on drop-catching and domaining. Some people feel that the fees are too high, while others feel that they need to be increased significantly in order to discourage domainers. Within the Irish internet community the upcoming… Continue reading Domain Pricing – What’s Going On?

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