trader - 7:42 pm on May 12, 2008 (gmt 0)

It has been said that Tucows/OpenSRS stated they can run the registries for less than $2 a name (and had offered to do that from what I understand). Over the years, overall internet costs should be going down (certainly not up) for online services and computer related commerce, and running a registry.

P.S. To be frank, I am really surprised to see you 3 members seemingly in support of the high PIR fee increases done without even bothering with a press release or any reasons given. The support PIR is seemingly getting here is both amazing and also very disturbing and has me concerned about the value of the member feedback validity and quality in this forum.

BTW, being an operator of 700 .org domains/websites (and a long time early supporter of dot-orgs, even years ago when org was not nearly as popular as it is today) the 10% price jump is significant, especially combined with likely future increases too.