Domain Names .com And .net To Raise Prices

I thought this was a bit interesting since this could affect prices for all hosting plans. The owners of the .com and .net domain plan to increase the price tag for those domains to $6.42, for .com and $3.85 for .net domains. they do mention that this will only affect those getting a new domain and renewal. However, people can still use the old price tag till Oct 14 and then on from Oct 15 on they will pay the new prices. The reason for the increase of course is to cover the cost of hacker attacks and the number of queries they recieve. It is aso mention that they could increase the prices in the coming years as well.

Interesting side though their are currently 62 million websites with the .com domain and 9.1 websites with the .net domain. at least we know for hte most part how man TLD's their are. Also the same company holds all domains that are currently being used. Like .biz and .info (Their are 266 suffixs for websites).


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is this true ? 62 million websites with the .com domain and 9.1 websites with the .net domain ?

is this true ? 62 million websites with the .com domain and 9.1 websites with the .net domain ?

62 Million? I would have thought less, not much less but that's alot. And just think none are the same. Almost 10 Million for .net is quite a bit also.

That's amazing.

Well these figures are really great hopefully they are not overexzagerated as if they are not then there is large profit that is double profit if I see it rigth and hopegully I am

Are .com's and .net's currently the same price? Most registrars charge the same for both I thought, or else only a dollar apart.

I am quite surprised at the price increases as there are now new domain suffixes that may be launch at the end of july(?), .travel, .asia and a few more. Surely this should reduce the dependency of .com domains?

Plenty of money to be made on this raise of prices for domains.