.INFO and .ORG Wholesale Prices Will Also Increase
Following suit to the recently announced wholesale price increase for .com and .net domains, the wholesale fees for .info and .org domains are going up 2.5 percent in mid-October. The .info increase takes effect on Oct. 15, while .org prices will go up on Oct. 18. As for domain suffix popularity, .org and .info rank fourth and sixth respectively.
Afilias Ltd., which runs the .info registry, disclosed its plans last week in a letter to ICANN. And yesterday (April 18), it was the Public Interest Registry's turn to inform ICANN about the coming price increase.
An increase of up to 10 percent a year was authorized under ICANN's latest contracts with PIR and Afilias, both dated Dec. 8. Both PIR and Afilias chose to increase fees by 15 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $6.15.
While VeriSign, the registry responsible for .com and .net domain names, justified their price increase this coming Oct. 15 with intensifying DNS loads and security threats, PIR and Afilias did not cite a reason in their letters to ICANN.
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this is really bad. few days ago, i see in a forum, for maintaining a doamin, cost of ICANN is only 0.14$
When their maintaining cost is this kind low, then why we buy a domain name with 6-7$ & now they increase their price.
When will this stop… Soon enough this will be outrageous (as if it isn't already!).
"PIR and Afilias did not cite a reason in their letters to ICANN."
I noticed this myself. In none of those letters, there are no reasons. Personally, I think they are just money hungry (and of course they are), there was really no need for this. If anything, the price should have been lowered…
Yes I Also Hear That News But Direct I India Company Sell Domain .info in very low rates . .ORG simply good domain and extension so i think it would be expensive.
Thanks
[...] .INFO and .ORG Wholesale Prices Will Also Increase Following suit to the recently announced wholesale price increase for .com and .net domains, the wholesale fees for .info and .org domains are going up 2.5 percent in mid-October. The .info increase takes effect on Oct. 15, while .org prices will go up on Oct. 18. As for domain suffix popularity, .org and .info rank fourth and sixth respectively. [...]
Will they still increase .info? They are so messed up in Google. They can't seem to indexed.