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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by CameronNemo on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:18PM (#37212549)
I think because the Verisign price increase is only 7%, and presumably namecheap has a margin on top of that. So increasing the price by 9% and blaming the registry could be considered unreasonable.
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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by skilled on Monday August 21, 2023 @01:38PM (#37212801)
But isn't the 7% already agreed upon in the wholesale agreement?

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...

I was under the impression that the other $6 comes from Namecheap, no? Maybe I misunderstood it.

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Re:9% price increase for .COM and .XYZ domains starting Sept... by CameronNemo on Monday August 21, 2023 @02:56PM (#37213823)
This comment breaks it down. Namecheap is using the opportunity to sneakily increase their markup, which is a bit underhanded IMO.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37213773

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