
Uniregistry
There’s plenty of misinformation regarding what is the real upcoming pricing of certain Uniregistry gTLDs.
We’re here to set the record straight, providing the hard facts about these gTLDs.
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Whether domainers like it or not, prices are going up on September 8th for the following 16 Uniregistry extensions:
.AUDIO
.BLACKFRIDAY
.CHRISTMAS
.CLICK
.DIET
.FLOWERS
.GUITARS
.HELP
.HIPHOP
.HOSTING
.JUEGOS
.LINK
.PICS
.PROPERTY
.SEXY
.TATTOO
There is one catch: The Uniregistry gTLDs in bold are being grandfathered in pricing.
What does this mean?
It means, that any domain registered in these extensions before September 8th, will continue to receive the current pricing.
Uniregistry enables that option to the domain Registrars that resell its gTLDs.
GoDaddy has chosen not to offer this pricing, that grandfathers the gTLDs in bold, choosing instead to increase its prices substantially, effective immediately.
How so?
Right now, at GoDaddy, you can’t get a .Hosting domain for $39.99 dollars, and lock down its pricing forever. Instead, you will pay $899.99 dollars – that’s the GoDaddy price, NOT the Uniregistry wholesale price of $338.88 dollars from September 8th.
Why would GoDaddy effectively deprive its customers of the price grandfathering for new domain registrations?
We are not sure.
Moving onto Tucows/OpenSRS, that announced the selective discontinuing of 9 Uniregistry gTLDs yesterday.
In a dramatic statement, Tucows/OpenSRS asserts that the Uniregistry price increase is being “disruptive to business.”
Very conveniently, Tucows/OpenSRS fails to mention two hard facts:
- The 9 gTLDs that are being grandfathered at current pricing, therefore posing no threat to existing businesses
- That the posted new prices of Uniregistry gTLDs from September 8th onward, are their own upselling prices – NOT those of Uniregistry (the Registry.)
For example:
- Uniregistry wholesale for .LINK is $9.88 and will remain the same after September 8th.
Tucows/OpenSRS price will be $12.- Uniregistry wholesale for .CHRISTMAS is $29.88 and will change to $36.88 after September 8th.
Tucows/OpenSRS price will jump to $50.
Why doesn’t Tucows/OpenSRS come clean about the new pricing, and in particular, why did they choose not to implement the grandfathering of gTLDs that receive the steepest price increases?
Instead, Tucows/OpenSRS chose to simply drop all the Uniregistry gTLDs that offer price grandfathering at current price levels.
Who is being “disruptive to business,” to use their own words?
It’s pretty obvious, in our opinion.
One has to keep in mind that Uniregistry – the domain Registrar, as opposed to the Registry of gTLDs – is a strong, emerging competitor to the businesses of other Registrars.
While Uniregistry – the Registry – has to comply with ICANN regulations and keep its Registrar “sandboxed” this cannot stop the competition from potentially engaging in questionable practices, as we’ve hopefully demonstrated in this article.
Onto the final document:
Here is the real wholesale retail pricing for all Uniregistry gTLDs that receive a price increase, from September 8th onward:
Addendum: Regarding the grandfathering of prices, and how this applies to domain names that change hands through – for example – a sale, Uniregistry gave us the following response:
“As long at the domain name has not expired, it doesn’t matter how many times it changes hands between different registrants, it will qualify for price protection.”
Hopefully this article clears up any misunderstandings, intentional or not, about what is going on with Uniregistry gTLD pricing, come September 8th.
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