The Public Interest Registry (PIR), the company responsible for managing ‘.org’ domain names, has announced that prices of registrations will be going up on November 9th.
According to Jacqui Cheng of Ars Technica, the company announced their intention to raise the wholesale price from $6.15 to $6.75 in a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), the body that oversees all domain names. While the PIR is totally within their rights to raise their wholesale prices, ICANN does have a say in how much they may raise it, but this increase falls well within the limit set.
While a $.60 raise may not seem like much, that is the wholesale price, and there is nothing saying that discount domain name sellers won’t raise it at least that much, if not more. And while a good number of for-profit entities purchase .org domain extensions with their chosen names, it’s worth keeping in mind that .org domain names tend to be used by non-profit groups, where costs are often more stringely watched. If they have multiple domains, annual fees can add up quite a bit, particularly for very small organizations.
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