Domain Name Prices Rising This Year (NewsFactor)The master-keeper of Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net" -- two of the most popular domain name suffixes -- said Thursday it would raise fees charged to register those names. The annual levy for ".com" will increase 7 percent to $6.42, and the ".net" fee will go up 10 percent to $3.85. The per-name fees are what VeriSign Inc. collects from companies that sell domain names on its ...
VeriSign to hike .com, .net domain name registry fees (EARTHtimes.org)VeriSign Inc., major infrastructure and securities provider for the internet and which operates the registries for domain names ending in .com and .net, said it is increasing the domain name fees for these extensions from 15 October.