If you’re slow, then you must not have heard about this yet. But if you have domains with Yahoo!, then I guess it’s safe to assume that you have.
Starting July of last year, Yahoo! domains have increased their annual renewal fees by 350% taking them from the initial $9.95 to a shocking $34.95 per renewal. It came as a big smacker to everyone who has always been using Yahoo! as their main domain registrar, why such an increase all of a sudden?
Well apparently, Yahoo! hasn’t been hiding the fact that fees were going to be increasing and has, in fact, sent reminder e-mails to those coming up to renewals at 90, 60 and 30 day intervals before payment was to be due. The reason for the sudden jump in renewal fees has been put down simply to basic costs. Yahoo! is increasing these prices to match how much it actually costs for them to offer this kind of service. According to Yahoo the $25 price increase is primarily being instituted to match the cost of doing business, and that registering domains (the process of creating a new Web address) can cost even more with other Web sites.
However, other competitors have much lower prices, including GoDaddy.com, Name.com or Google Apps, all of which charge annual fees of around $10.
Since domain registration is not the core of Yahoo’s small-business site, the company said its prices can not be as low as those of sites that focus on registering domains Yahoo, however, in order to continue to attract new customers into buying domains Yahoo! will first offer it’s initial year fee at $9.95, eventually increasing to $34.95 after that. To the newbies who have not realized yet what they were getting themselves into have continued to purchase their Yahoo domain names.
It is also further pointed out that there doesn’t seem to be a possible way to advance-renew your domains at Yahoo, so you have no chance to bypass the price increase. Don’t you just love it? :grin:
source: http://cute-spot.com/domains-yahoo.php
Starting July of last year, Yahoo! domains have increased their annual renewal fees by 350% taking them from the initial $9.95 to a shocking $34.95 per renewal. It came as a big smacker to everyone who has always been using Yahoo! as their main domain registrar, why such an increase all of a sudden?
Well apparently, Yahoo! hasn’t been hiding the fact that fees were going to be increasing and has, in fact, sent reminder e-mails to those coming up to renewals at 90, 60 and 30 day intervals before payment was to be due. The reason for the sudden jump in renewal fees has been put down simply to basic costs. Yahoo! is increasing these prices to match how much it actually costs for them to offer this kind of service. According to Yahoo the $25 price increase is primarily being instituted to match the cost of doing business, and that registering domains (the process of creating a new Web address) can cost even more with other Web sites.
However, other competitors have much lower prices, including GoDaddy.com, Name.com or Google Apps, all of which charge annual fees of around $10.
Since domain registration is not the core of Yahoo’s small-business site, the company said its prices can not be as low as those of sites that focus on registering domains Yahoo, however, in order to continue to attract new customers into buying domains Yahoo! will first offer it’s initial year fee at $9.95, eventually increasing to $34.95 after that. To the newbies who have not realized yet what they were getting themselves into have continued to purchase their Yahoo domain names.
It is also further pointed out that there doesn’t seem to be a possible way to advance-renew your domains at Yahoo, so you have no chance to bypass the price increase. Don’t you just love it? :grin:
source: http://cute-spot.com/domains-yahoo.php
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