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“At this stage, .com should be $1,000 a year to hold”

February 13, 2020 by Raymond Hackney

Cost to register a .com

That’s right $1,000 a year. Joe Styler posted a thread on Namepros about the ICANN comment period regarding Verisign increasing prices on .com.

Namepros member Keith who is an active domain investor took a contrarian approach if he was not trolling everyone.

Keith left two comments

.Com price increase

.Com price increase

An interesting take, $1,000 a year would be ridiculous and certainly is not justified. $1,000 a year would be a real cost to a small company that say owned a name for their site and a couple others for marketing like call to action domain names.

The funniest comment I got over this whole ICANN commenting, was someone who told me to “Fuck off!!! I own Verisign stock and call options.”

The cost to register a .com should be kept reasonable to make sure that anyone who wants to be online can be online.

New gtld’s would do well to follow suit, someone registering a domain name doesn’t care about your cost.

Registering a .com should probably go down over time the same way most things Internet related do.

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Filed Under: domaining news, ICANN, Verisign

About Raymond Hackney

Raymond Hackney has been involved with domain names since 1997. One of the most prolific writers in the domain industry and founder of TLDinvestors.com and 3Character.com

Comments

  1. Frank says

    February 13, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    if it would put namepros out of business I would support it. That take was better than the stupid poem thread.

  2. Stacee says

    February 13, 2020 at 11:09 pm

    Prices do go up everywhere else, this peculiar community believes they should never be subject to price increases?

    $1K is not feasible, but $15?

    Will domain investors lower or freeze their prices?

    • Praveen Chidaboyina says

      February 14, 2020 at 3:15 am

      .com maintenance costs under $4 USD per domain but they still have 3 USD profit on each .com registration then why we would make someone so rich.
      Verisign has a shady agreement over .com operations but ICANN should conduct a public auction.

  3. Mike says

    February 13, 2020 at 11:20 pm

    Keith is a serial low baller, he should save his advice for the lowball offers he makes, if he has so much to pay for renewals, he should offer it with his buy requests hey ketih.tv

  4. Anunt says

    February 14, 2020 at 2:33 am

    Not $1000, but atleast $100/year.
    People will think twice before registering pigeon shit domains.

  5. Domainz says

    February 14, 2020 at 6:39 am

    what a Jealous Loser. IN MY OPINION this guy is an unhappy hater. keith must have missed the boat on domain names and now wants everyone to lose aswell.

  6. Nick says

    February 14, 2020 at 8:31 am

    Everytime I see a blog post or video from that guy he is always giving horrible advice. I don’t get it. He’s horrible at pricing domains, and everytime I see him try to sell his domains that are pure junk and not worth reg fee.

    • Raymond Hackney says

      February 14, 2020 at 11:45 am

      I don’t believe you have the right person. Keith does not blog.

      • Nick says

        February 14, 2020 at 2:12 pm

        Yeah he does, he blogs on Doron’s site sometimes

        • Raymond Hackney says

          February 14, 2020 at 2:33 pm

          No he does not, that’s Keith DeBoer https://www.namepros.com/members/keith-deboer.963631/

          Not @keith

          • Nick says

            February 14, 2020 at 2:50 pm

            opps thought that was the same Keith, my bad.

  7. Domains says

    February 14, 2020 at 8:45 am

    Fuck this clown.

  8. lifesavings.online says

    February 14, 2020 at 10:36 am

    keith known by me to be provoking and hollow. That’s all that’s left on namepros. Those suck-ups, trolls, and delusional. Any truthful outlook and analysis is shut down, user banned. You can’t warn anyone of anything there or many blogs, especially dnn. Everything is moderated to uphold the scams, the many that are going down.

    I’ve been trying to warn of FBI looking HARD into domains, and warning of more and more coming. My comments don’t get published. Those that are corrupt don’t like the corruption exposed.

  9. Ronald Smith says

    February 14, 2020 at 11:28 am

    That comment is out there, then I saw the bogus statement on np that you have to sign up here to comment.

    ICANN needs to go, a better system is needed and better oversight.

    • David Michaels says

      February 16, 2020 at 8:48 am

      ICANN needs better governance.

      It’s a California charity entrusted with governing the world’s most important digital assets.

  10. Nether says

    February 14, 2020 at 11:41 am

    Go read that thread and you see along with the gd – uni thread, namepros has the dumbest commenters in the biz.

    People talking about $1,000 .coms, others thinking Frankie sold for $10m. They are a bunch of hobbyists who would be better off playing bingo.

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