StupidScript - 9:17 pm on Dec 1, 2006 (gmt 0)

Verisign currently charges $6.00US per year to manage each domain name in the .com gTLD. Add the $0.25US per year charge for ICANN's fees to get the base fee for each .com domain.

So a 7% fee increase (available to Verisign four times over the next six years ... the life of the current contract) ends up looking like:

Y2007 = $6.00US (no increase allowed)
Y2008 = $6.00US (no increase allowed)
Y2009 = $6.42US
Y2010 = $6.87US
Y2011 = $7.35US
Y2012 = $7.86US

This isn't exactly breaking the bank, folks. It accounts for little of the costs related to managing the entire planet's .com entries. An increase of $1.86US over six years? I think we can all handle that.

[edited by: StupidScript at 9:22 pm (utc) on Dec. 1, 2006]