"Subject: Advisory: Notice of Fee Change
March 27, 2008
VIA Email and Express Delivery
Re: Notice of Fee Change
To All Registrars,
VeriSign, Inc. and it’s wholly owned subsidiaries (”VNDS”) is hereby notifying all registrars of a fee change for .com and/or .net domain names effective October 1, 2008. In accordance with our contract, ICANN has already been notified. Details as follows:
1. VNDS’ fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .com domain name registration and for each transfer of a .com domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US $6.86, exclusive of any ICANN Variable Registry-Level Fee (as defined in the .com Registry Agreement) or any other ICANN fee; and
2. VNDS’ fee for each annual increment of a new and renewal .net domain name registration and for each transfer of a .net domain name registration from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another will be US $4.23, exclusive of any ICANN Variable Registry-Level Fee (as defined in the .net Registry Agreement) or any other ICANN fee.
Except for the above-described fee changes, all other terms of the relevant agreements (.com and .net Registry Agreements and Registry-Registrar Agreements) remain unchanged.
Please contact Customer Affairs Office at cao@verisign-grs.com if you have specific questions regarding this notice.
Best regards,
PJ Bolanos
Vice President, Customer Support
VeriSign, Inc.
info@verisign-grs.com"
Expect another price increase to come 2009, 2010, and 2011, and 2012. I believe it was all part of their arrangement with ICANN last year which the domain industry did not do enough to stand against, and now paying dearly.
Source: Posted on TheConceptualist by Sahar Sahid – Reprinted with permission – March 28,2008