[Comments-com-amendment-3-03jan20] Thoughts on price increases

[Steven Harris]

Nobody likes to hear prices are going up.
However, after reading some of the other comments I notice a lot of domainers are opposing this, and frankly if people are holding domain names simply to make money then I do not have a lot of sympathy for their case.

On the other hand, home businesses that need a website will find the increasing yearly cost a pain. Not a large pain but everything adds up. I notice that already a lot of local businesses simply use Facebook pages rather than having a dedicated web site.

It seems to me that for people who need a domain and want to keep it then the price should be locked or discounted. So that if someone buys for 5 years they get a much lower price than someone who renews annually. This 5 years discount should of course be non-transferable and non-refundable. Basically protect those who need a name for their business versus those who buy and sell domains for a profit.

I have already started allowing my domain names to relapse. I had several for different business ideas and although the names were good and suitable I already felt that paying for domain names that I wasn’t using much was an expense I did not need. So I am pruning back. If the price of .com domains rises too high I might drop the .com domains completely and simply use .co.uk or other alternatives.


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