ergophobe
msg:3618355 | 6:05 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
The price hike, disclosed in a letter to the Internet's key oversight agency, does not require any regulatory approval.
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hmmm. How much of an increase *does* require approval?
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LifeinAsia
msg:3618358 | 6:10 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
More than 7%. It's in their contract that they can raise prices 7%/year in 4 of the 6 years of their contract.
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mikhaill
msg:3618381 | 6:39 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Is there a reason why I can't go and add 5 more years to my registration at the current rate before the hike takes place?
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LifeinAsia
msg:3618389 | 6:44 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
I think that's what they would love to have you do- then they get all your money this year instead of over the next several years.
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goodroi
msg:3618419 | 7:22 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
i think verisign's contract is up for renewal in 2012. might be worth waiting till then to see if someone else comes in and pushes verisign out.
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mikhaill
msg:3618486 | 8:25 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Right, but a one time bump in their earning now, is going to be less overall then if we keep renewing annually paying the 7% increase each year.
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SEOPTI
msg:3618511 | 8:55 pm on Apr 3, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Hope this will help to get rid of the domain parking syndrome some companies aim for.
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jamsy
msg:3618612 | 12:27 am on Apr 4, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| Hope this will help to get rid of the domain parking syndrome some companies aim for. |
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not a chance at 7% - certainly with a weak dollar for us UK guys domains have never been cheaper. It costs us more to buy a pint than a domain name.
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JS_Harris
msg:3618743 | 3:53 am on Apr 4, 2008 (gmt 0) |
Mixed feelings. On one hand, domains are dirt cheap right now. On the other hand, they should be free.
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directwheels
msg:3619075 | 1:44 pm on Apr 4, 2008 (gmt 0) |
>>On the other hand, they should be free. Yes and no. If they were free, all of them would be taken, even asdlweuriolroqwpqlf.com
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Murdoch
msg:3619095 | 2:10 pm on Apr 4, 2008 (gmt 0) |
| Right, but a one time bump in their earning now, is going to be less overall then if we keep renewing annually paying the 7% increase each year. |
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True, but if stockholders see a prominent increase in revenue, then the stock goes up, and they've certainly been pretty all over the place for the first quarter this year [finance.google.com ] Plus any money they make now goes into a bank account which earns interest, it may almost make up for people buying year to year at the increased rate.
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Lewis Winter
msg:3622021 | 6:50 pm on Apr 8, 2008 (gmt 0) |
A 7-10% increase on specific names is hardly a problem. Why not pay in advance now? Wouldn't inflation have pushed the prices up anyway? >>On the other hand, they should be free. Like directwheels says, if they were free, all of them would be taken. It'd totally ruin the idea behind domains and reduce the 'remaining' ones to complete garbage.
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mosstrooper
msg:3624303 | 7:07 am on Apr 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
"asdlweuriolroqwpqlf.com" Hey! That's mine! :-)
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ergophobe
msg:3624696 | 4:25 pm on Apr 11, 2008 (gmt 0) |
>>if they were free, all of them would be taken. Sorry, I have been watching this for a while and I have to press the BS buzzer ;-) The fact that in 1893 the US government decided to kick out the resettled native Americans and declared that the 42,000 parcels available in Oklahoma were free to the first comers does not mean that you can't buy property in Oklahoma today. It just means that it is no longer free (except for the administrative costs of filing your claim, which was not a cost of the land). No matter what the price is, eventually all domains worth having at a given price will be gone and all the domains that you think of as "available" (by which you really mean unregistered) will be registered. Most, however, will still be "available". It will be a simple matter of offering more money to the owner than the domain is worth to that person. You just have a skewed perception of the domain market because you happen to be alive during the "domain rush" period. Some people (hello Jeff?) figured that out years ago. You can think of what they did as hiring ten thousand people to rush into Oklahoma and stake claims, knowing that someday this property would not be free for the price of a claims filing.
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MiniAlex
msg:3637519 | 11:50 am on Apr 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
i missed my chances of buying years ago! but now with the dollar so cheap and the uk pound against the euro, i am buying now some domains. will definitly renew the domains now for 10 years before they go up 7%. right now they are only going up 7% but after the governments finish taxing alcohol and tobacco, i am sure they will find a reasoen that domains is unhealthy and start taxing domains LOLLLLLL
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MiniAlex
msg:3637520 | 11:50 am on Apr 29, 2008 (gmt 0) |
sorry to post again but got to tell "ergophobe" GREAT POST!
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