by wnevets on 6/6/25, 12:58 AM
Really need to add (2 cents) to the title. There are people in the comments who think it's 11% of the domain purchase price.
by Aeolun on 6/5/25, 10:50 PM
So they multiply that 3.8M by the number of registrars active, and then divide the total amount based on what they feel is fair for all registrars?
by TZubiri on 6/6/25, 12:43 AM
This looks to be a 2c price increase.
The ICANN fee is rising from 18c/yr to 20c/yr
The other fee that rose recently and is more significant, (around 8USD/yr) is set by Verisign, who operates the popular TLD .com
by edoceo on 6/6/25, 12:34 AM
One reason to pay the rent 10 years at a time, for domains you want to "keep"
by OutOfHere on 6/6/25, 12:13 AM
Always use the cheapest TLDs. There is no reason to give ICANN more money. It works the same.
by charcircuit on 6/6/25, 1:10 AM
I think it would be interesting if Google were to compete against the ICANN monopoly with their own DNS system.
by phendrenad2 on 6/6/25, 12:42 AM
This is a price hike to gTLD providers by ICANN.
by destructionator on 6/6/25, 12:23 AM
lol "11%" i guess sounds a lot bigger than "two cents".
by Sohcahtoa82 on 6/5/25, 10:58 PM
Don't bother asking why they're raising the prices. They'll just say "Because ICANN".