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VeriSign to increase .com, .net domain fees (InfoWorld via Yahoo! News) VeriSign is planning to raise the wholesale cost of registering a .com or .net domain name in October to generate more money for infrastructure improvements, the company announced on Thursday.

Domain Name Prices Rising This Year (NewsFactor)The master-keeper of Internet addresses ending in ".com" and ".net" -- two of the most popular domain name suffixes -- said Thursday it would raise fees charged to register those names. The annual levy for ".com" will increase 7 percent to $6.42, and the ".net" fee will go up 10 percent to $3.85. The per-name fees are what VeriSign Inc. collects from companies that sell domain names on its ...

VeriSign Domain Price Increase Criticized (InformationWeek)The cost increases are necessary to pay for the increased volume of domain name system queries, the company asserts.

Domain Names - Choosing Them Alphabetically (WebProNews) There was an amusing aspect to the Google Search Engine Ranking Factors version 2 that SEOmoz put out this week. Domain Names - Choosing Them Alphabetically This report compares and contrasts the views of 37 experts in Search Engine Optimization on how Google ranks web page factors in keyword searches. It makes for interesting reading particularly given ...

County approves eminent domain action - Liquor store owner promises long fight (The Sentinel-News)Eminent domain actions are now pending against property owners who have refused to accept the county's offer for their property where a new judicial center is planned.

Domain name fees going up (Austin Business Journal)VeriSign Inc. said Thursday it is increasing registry domain name fees.

VeriSign to hike .com, .net domain name registry fees (EARTHtimes.org)VeriSign Inc., major infrastructure and securities provider for the internet and which operates the registries for domain names ending in .com and .net, said it is increasing the domain name fees for these extensions from 15 October.

Verisign wastes no time jacking up domain prices (Addict 3D)Sweetheart deal with ICANN ready to pay dividendsVerisign yesterday announced in a press release that it will raise its registry fees for .com and/or .net domain names by seven per cent to $6.42 on October 15, 2007, as provided for in a controversial contract inked last March between the company and ICANN.?

Domain name fees to increase (Houston Business Journal)VeriSign Inc. is increasing registry domain name fees.

Domain Name Prices To Rise (And Keep Rising?) (WebProNews) This won?t cause the end of the world, and it probably won?t even drive anyone out of business, but Verisign is set to raise domain prices by 7-10%. More ominous is the possibility that the prices will, from this point on, continue to increase on a yearly basis. Oh, well - at least the company is being upfront about it. ?VeriSign Announces Increase in .Com/.Net domain Name Fees,? it ...