Verisign announces another .com price increase

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• Encoders

  March 2023

  assuming MUH PROFIT factor can be ignored, why domain price must be adjusted? is it because inflation? or another cost like electricity or operational cost in general is raising?

  Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.
• MikeA Hosting ProviderOG

  March 2023

  Public company, gotta keep revenue up for shareholders.

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• rcy026

  March 2023

  @Encoders said:
  assuming MUH PROFIT factor can be ignored, why domain price must be adjusted? is it because inflation? or another cost like electricity or operational cost in general is raising?

  Inflation affects everything, directly or indirectly.
  It is likely that domain names is one of the things people will cut back on when times are tough. Less domain registrations means registrars have to have higher margins to stay profitable, which means they have to increase price.

  But, of course, the "we increase prices because we can" factor is not to be overlooked. Which is kind of a catch 22, when some companies raises their prices just because they can, it affects other companies that have to raise their prices, and that in turn affect other companies and so on and so on. This is not a small part of what actually drives inflation, your money is worth less which makes things more expensive which makes companies raise prices which makes things more expensive which makes your money worth less. And repeat.

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• Encoders

  March 2023

  @rcy026 said:
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  But, of course, the "we increase prices because we can" factor is not to be overlooked. Which is kind of a catch 22, when some companies raises their prices just because they can, it affects other companies that have to raise their prices, and that in turn affect other companies and so on and so on. This is not a small part of what actually drives inflation, your money is worth less which makes things more expensive which makes companies raise prices which makes things more expensive which makes your money worth less. And repeat.

  thank you, this is interesting. .com is the most used domain for now but other extensions are undoubtedly keeps growing (iirc verisign did mention growth decrease before).

  Domain.com's price is an interesting piece to look forward to, considering:

  • clever names are mostly taken in this particular extension.
  • Google is introducing infinity scroll search results in wider coverage (they were A/B testing in the US since 2020, but atm in SEA we already got them too), which is destroying the idea that "hurr this domain name is on page 1 that means it's good for SEO."
  • NLP-based "search engines" are easily more accessible; IMO, this could contribute to people caring less about your domain name extension.

  Fuck this 24/7 internet spew of trivia and celebrity bullshit.