ICANN Lowering Fees

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[不指定 06/26/2007 18:58 | by liuxyon ]
ICANN just announced to Registrars in San Juan about 5 minutes ago that they will be lowering their fees to $0.20 cents per domain starting July 1st. The preliminary budget will be posted later this week, but here’s the scoop. The current rate is $0.22 cents and the previous year it was $0.25. The delay from when a registrant actually sees this fee being lowered can lag a lot. Once the budget is officially approved, the Registrars can bank on the lower fees and start charging it to their customers accordingly. The Finance committee has approved the fee reduction so it is more official than not. Kurt Pritz, Senior Vice President of ICANN, has said that once the finance committee makes its recommendation it does not need board approval for the fee, however the overall budget still must be officially voted on and pass. But at this time we are expecting the budget to be voted on and also to pass. Earlier this year we saw GoDaddy refund $0.03 on all domains that were registered during the previous cycle because they were invoiced a few months after the change.

Verisign will be raising its fees on October 15th so the lowest cost for a domain registration will be at a two year low starting July 1st and will last until the domain costs raise by the registries on October 15th. Frank Schilling and other domainers have been saying that people should renew their domains early and lock in a few extra years of registration. I think this window is a perfect time to take that advice.

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