Verisign wastes no time jacking up domain prices (Addict 3D)

[Domain News]

Sweetheart deal with ICANN ready to pay dividendsVerisign yesterday announced in a press release that it will raise its registry fees for .com and/or .net domain names by seven per cent to $6.42 on October 15, 2007, as provided for in a controversial contract inked last March between the company and ICANN.…

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Does this also apply to domain names that have been registered with a history? I'm not coming up for any renewals yet, so I will keep an eye on this one for sure. Also wondering how much this is going to drive up the price for monetized 'parked" domains in the future.