I just received a notice from enom.com informing me that the wholesale cost of that the Public Interest Registry (PIR), the Registry Operator for the .ORG domain, will be increasing its annual registration price by $0.80 USD.
As a result of this, eNom will raise pricing for the .ORG domain name extension by $0.80 USD on July 31st.
The last price increase by the .Org registry was in 2013 to $8.25.
Therefore with this increase the wholesale cost of a .Org domain name will rise to $9.05.
The wholesale cost of a .com remains $7.85.
All domain names in addition are subject to an ICANN fee of $.18.
There are about 10.5 million .Org domain names registered.
Big Rock sells ORG for $5.
I still like .org’s, i think it’s a trusted extension.
I’ll take a .ORG over a new gtld anyday.
I don’t think this is the right move now that consumers have more choices in the new gTLDs.