This has been happening for a few years now: "Verisign announced an increase in the annual fee for a .net domain name registration from $7.46 to $8.20., per its agreement with the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). .Net price is now higher than the .com price that is frozen at $7.85 until at least 2018.<p>I seems that this increase has become an annual tradition now."<p><a href="https://onlinedomain.com/2016/08/01/domain-name-news/net-domain-name-price-goes-10-february-1st-2016-76-since-2012/" rel="nofollow">https://onlinedomain.com/2016/08/01/domain-name-news/net-dom...</a>