Could it cost you thousands to renew your domain?

August 29, 2006 | By Matt Craven | Filed Under News

Tony Hung, over at deep jive interests, posts about how ICANN is lifting its price controls on .info, .biz, and .org domains:

Basically, it appears that with the lifting of price controls, ICANN has the potential to engage in â€œvariable-pricingâ€? so that they might charge whatever the market will bear for a particular domain (with those top level domains).

This means they could charge thousands for domains that previously cost only $8-10 now.

And with the threat of a â€™slippery-slopeâ€™, one wonders if the same effects could possibly happen with .com or .net domains in the future.

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been spending $8.88 at Namecheap for years to register and renew my domains…

Today was the last day that input could be given to ICANN about this change. Now what happens?

I sure hope nothing, because it would suck to spend $1000 to renew our BlogMedia domain….

About the author: Matt Craven is the former editor & publisher of The Blog Herald. Currently, Matt is the co-founder of Bryghtpath LLC, a boutique web 2.0 firm located in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He blogs at Telegraphik & The Blog Herald. You can follow him on Twitter.

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