May 17, 2013
1:36 p.m.
Score one for PIR!
Actual registry prices: Verisign .com: $7.85 Neustar .biz: $7.85 ($4 promotion) PIR/Afilias .org: $7.70 Afilias .info: $7.42 ($3 promotion) Afilias .mobi: $7.25 ($4 promotion) Verisign .net: $5.86 The promotion prices are temporary and usually limited to new registrations, although .info has been on sale more or less continuously for years. As you can see, PIR's pricing is right in line with everyone else, and considerably higher than Verisign's .net. I agree with Evan that the world would be a better place if there were more friction in domain registrations and people used them as identifiers rather than as fashion accessories, but that horse left the barn in the previous millenium. R's, John