Namecheap ups its prices 9% for .com and .xyz this fall.

nik282000@lemmy.ml to Selfhosted@lemmy.world – 271 points –

Having just jumped from Google to Nameheap this is more than mildly frustrating.

edit: apparently this is the result of Verisign putting up their wholesale prices

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Aside from the obvious fighting and bidding over an already claimed single domain name, what factors into the inherent pricing of a domain?

The domain registry (basically owner of the domain ending) sets the price.

Edit: Though it should be mentioned there's a power above them (ICANN) that has to approve the price.