Price increase on .com domain names starting September 1, 2021

It&#x27;s not going to end. Verisign was allowed to increase the wholesale price to registrars for .COM domains by 7% each year in 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023.<p>Edited: in more detail from thread[0] last year:<p>[0]<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22292348" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=22292348</a>

Is there a price level that would noticably reduce the prevalence of namesquatting? Maybe at $100 or $1000?<p>Is there a price level at which the nerds say &quot;fuck this&quot; and create new domain roots without ICANN?

•Create: $16.59* (current price $15.50<i>)<p>•Renewal: $16.59</i> (current price $15.50<i>)<p>•Transfer: $13.38</i> (current price $12.50<i>)<p>•Restore: $139.10</i> (current price $130.00*)

Honest question, are people outside the domain squatter economy (squatters and their customers) actually paying for .com domains?<p>I’ve never been able to secure a .com for a project, they are all squatted and being sold at a massive (like 1000x+) markup.

Two of the websites I use everyday do not even require a domain name. I just use the IP address. With the rise of shared hosting especially driven by added costs of https, it&#x27;s not possible to use IP address with most sites today but it&#x27;s sure nice to be free from the ICANN DNS cartel and to not have to run DNS software. Before long, I have the addresses memorised. I never try to memorise them, it just happens automatically after a while. Reminds me of how we memorise phone numbers.

Time to get my decentralized ENS domain and setup my website on IPFS

Inflation is everywhere i guess, or should I say « stagflation ».

I moved my domains last year from Gandi to Porkbun, very happy customer.