Who Would Have Thought .Biz Domains Will Cost More Than .Com

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In its letter to ICANN today, Neustar the operator of the .Biz registry, notified ICANN that it will be raising the wholesale cost of a .Biz domain name registration or renewal to $8.63 effective September 1, 2013

Once the increase goes into effect the wholesale cost of a .Biz registration will be higher than the wholesale cost of a .Com

Currently the wholesale price of .Biz is exactly the same amount of a .Com $7.85 .

According to the most recent monthly report filed with ICANN, the .Biz registry has 2,336,510 domain names.

The price increase of $.78 will add around $1.8 in additional revenue to Neustar the operator of the .Biz registry.

What effect do you think the price increase will have on the number of .Biz registrations going forward?

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

Comments

  3. Jeff Schneider says

    Hello MHB,

    My read on this is the surviving established extensions are placing bets on a total gTLD Folly unraveling. Therefore creating more demand for surviving Trusted Brand extensions. PERHAPS ?

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)

  4. Jeff Schneider says

    @ jp

    As you might well know I kinda am a fan of Biz myself.

    Only I prefer Biz to the left of the Dot.

    Biz is a nice Brand if you are in business on the web regardless, I think you would agree ?

    Gratefully, Jeff Schneider (Contact Group) (Metal Tiger)

  5. _rubensk says

    There are more .com than any other domain, so .com should cost less, due to economies of scale. All other gTLDs, including .net and .org should cost more.

  6. Grim says

    It’s odd, but I can’t recall ever visiting a .BIZ website. I own some for defensive purposes for my more popular websites, but have wondered if it’s worth the trouble. I haven’t bothered with certain extensions like .NAME, after all.

  7. Grim says

    After posting the above, I checked to see if anyone owned TheDomains.biz. Sure enough, it’s taken, and available for rent or sale. Only $69 per year, or $2000 to buy! Such a bargain, but no threat of being accidentally confused for the real .COM version of the name. 🙂

  9. Mr. Ezequiel Rios Gonzalez says

    Good Morning,
    This is just my opinion and mine only, itz actually a excellent conzept, just analyzing the .BIZ make perfect sense I use .com just for communication with our world, but for the official die hard business people of our world itzz make perfect sense, nothing personal just buzinezz