Bummer!

[alley]

Dear Jeff,

As you may have read, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) recently approved price increases for certain domain registries. Domain registries are the private companies which manage the registration of domain names within the top-level domains for which they are responsible, control the policies of domain name allocation, and technically operate its top-level domain(s).

Domain registries VeriSign, Afilias, Neulevel and Public Interest Registry applied for price increases and received approval and will be raising their wholesale prices to all ICANN-accredited registrars. In light of that decision we have no choice but to raise our pricing for the corresponding domain names by $0.50 per year effective 13th October 2007. The following extensions are affected:

.com
.net
.org
.biz
.info
.us

We regret having to increase our prices, however we cannot realistically absorb such a large percentage increase. We have noted competitors taking advantage of this situation to raise their prices by over a dollar per year with no notice, and hope you will appreciate that we are only passing on the increase in our costs and not a cent more.

Orders placed before midday EST on 13th October 2007 will continue to receive our current pricing.

With sincere thanks for your continued use of our services,
NameAlerts, LLC

[iBrightDev]

switch to godaddy. :P

[Wojtek]

9.99$ per domain now at godaddy

[J J]

Name.com (http://name.com) are pretty cheap :)

[alley]

I just love how some companies can even sound professional when they're about to screw you :lol: (NameAlerts)

[TaoPhoenix]

I just love how some companies can even sound professional when they're about to screw you :lol: (NameAlerts)

It's fun to write them too. I've done a couple for work. Here is a parody.

"Dear Alley.

I regret to inform you than since you have ascended to the ranks of minor deity here, certain established deities from faiths which are no longer in their prime are protesting about your surge in power.

To this end, Thor has ordered you to give up your supermoderator status and work your way back from a Junior Member so you can relive the experience of your newest members, and retain the street-level knowledge of what it means to be an up and coming aspirant.

Please deposit your credentials with the authorities waiting outside, and once again, thank you for your patronage of Valhalla."

[Jan]

Namecheap have gone up too. I noticed that when I bought yet another domain today.

[alley]

:thumbsup haha ... right on! :P




It's fun to write them too. I've done a couple for work. Here is a parody.

"Dear Alley.

I regret to inform you than since you have ascended to the ranks of minor deity here, certain established deities from faiths which are no longer in their prime are protesting about your surge in power.

To this end, Thor has ordered you to give up your supermoderator status and work your way back from a Junior Member so you can relive the experience of your newest members, and retain the street-level knowledge of what it means to be an up and coming aspirant.

Please deposit your credentials with the authorities waiting outside, and once again, thank you for your patronage of Valhalla."

[Dan]

Pretty soon domains will be almost impossible to buy. It will become something like the cost of Iris Domains like yourname.ie

Here, to get a .ie, you have to have some form of ID and the yearly fee of at least €40

[sep]

My registrar upped their prices too. Now it costs nearly $7 USD to get a .com plus associated fees.

[Darknight]

http://mydomain.com stayed the same.. :P

[Infrenion]

I guess enom did that as well.

[finehost-in]

Well time to look at other options, .in are available for $3.99 at pubdomains.in and they still have 3 / 4 letter domains available.

Cheers
GS