.NAME price increaces to $6.60 effective August 1, 2013

Verisign sent a letter to ICANN about an upcoming fee change in .name domain names. The letter notifies ICANN and all .name ICANN accredited registrars about the registry price increase for .name domain names that is going to be effective August 1, 2013.

2nd level .name registrations will increase from $6.00 to $6.60 per year while 3rd level registrations will be $5.77 per year.

Lately it seems that all ICANN/Verisign correspondence is about registry price increases after Verisign lost the right to increase .com prices for the next 6 years. Just before Christmas ICANN announced that .net price increases to $5.62 on July 1, 2013.