Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases

Help Us Avoid .COM Price Increases(links.namecheap.com)

32 points by tamalsaha001 6 years ago | 4 comments

Yes please increase .com prices! That’ll discourage domain “investing” and keeping unused names (which we’re all guilty of). Something like $30/yr is still affordable but would really change the economics of holding onto unused domains and make life much easier for anyone starting a business (sadly anything other than com is still seen as sketchy).

sharno 6 years ago | |

This wouldn’t work. Domain squatters are always going to profit from most requested domains whatever the increase is. If $30 is affordable for the regular person it’s affordable for a squatter. Increasing prices though would prevent someone in a poor country who earns a couple of dollars a day from starting a website for their business.

Rather domains should be cheaper for less fortunate people to have better online presence

brianhorakh 6 years ago |

Dear icann & verisign,

If you keep raising prices, expect the decentralized blockchain people to replace /obsolete your organization(s).

Its absurd to charge that much for a database record.

Sincerely,

-the Internet

k-m-sadeghi 6 years ago |

Berners Lee should be proud of ICAN't