Renew Your .Com Domains Before Oct. 1
Just read this on Dave Zan’s Domain Name blog and thought it fair to spread the word to those who may want to get ahead of the increase. Read the full story on Dave’s blog post below.
Renew Your .Com Domains Before Oct. 1
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As an update to this story, I just got the following news off my Google Reader.
Taken in full from Domain Name Wire:
GoDaddy Jacks Up Domain Prices — Again
Friday, September 5th, 2008
.Net and .Org prices jump to $15.19.
Just a few days after we swallowed the news that GoDaddy increased .net and .org prices to 13.19, and a few weeks after the company claimed Yahoo “Jumped the Shark” by raising its domain prices to $35, GoDaddy has hiked prices again.
.Net and .Org domain names will now set you back $15.19. It’s not as big of a deal as Yahoo’s (NASDAQ: YHOO) hike to $35, but it seems odd to call out a competitor for drastically raising prices when you also decide to jack up your price 50% or so.
Domain investors that own large portfolios are stuck with a few options: join the discount domain club, spend your time looking for coupon codes, or transfer your domains to other companies.
The discount domain club offers .net and .org domains for $7.19. As for coupon codes, there are a multitude out there on the web. One reader pointed out a coupon that was working as of yesterday: TEST99 gives you .com domains for only 99 cents.
If you want to transfer your domains to a lower cost provider, be sure to not change your registrant name in whois.
It appears that GoDaddy’s pricing strategy is to advertise $9.99 .com domains (really $10.19 when adding the ICANN fee) and then sell customers alternative extensions priced 50% more than many competitors. It may boost GoDaddy’s bottom line — but the company needs to message it correctly to big portfolio holders.
