The real percentages of the upcoming Uniregistry domain extension price increases (5% to 3115%)

Uniregistry’s planned price increase in its 16 new extensions resulted in a reaction few anticipated.

Michele Neylon, CEO of the registrar Blacknight, shared in a blog post the actual percentages that each of the affected New gTLDs. Domain name prices are in Euro as the registrar is based in Ireland but the percentages are more than enough to get a clear picture. But I believe that the percentages are based on the real Uniregistry increases from USD wholesale prices while the new retail prices are somehow adjusted to what the registrar will charge. For example the Blacknight .link price will remain the same even though the TLD will see a 5% increase in both domain registration and domain renewal prices.

Michele Neylon said that “If you have domains registered in any of the domain extensions mentioned above the pricing will increase on August 21st 2017. If you want to renew your domain(s) in advance of the price increase you can do so and take advantage of the current pricing.”

Colin Campbell, CEO of .Club that “.CLUB has voluntarily signed a price protection clause with the registrars for the first 5 years which limits to inflation or 15%.”. You read all about .Club’s pricing strategy here. This is what Andee Hill from Donuts said: “we have no plans to increase prices for existing registrants”.

Here is what GoDaddy (“Regardless of the economics, it’s an extremely poor customer experience.”), Rightside (“I want to reassure our valued customers who have invested in our TLDs that we will not be following suit.”) and Radix (“We have no immediate plans to increase our wholesale prices.”) said about this issue on DomainInvesting.com and TheDomains.com.