So they multiply that 3.8M by the number of registrars active, and then divide the total amount based on what they feel is fair for all registrars?
This looks to be a 2c price increase.
The ICANN fee is rising from 18c/yr to 20c/yr
The other fee that rose recently and is more significant, (around 8USD/yr) is set by Verisign, who operates the popular TLD .com
One reason to pay the rent 10 years at a time, for domains you want to "keep"
Always use the cheapest TLDs. There is no reason to give ICANN more money. It works the same.
I think it would be interesting if Google were to compete against the ICANN monopoly with their own DNS system.
This is a price hike to gTLD providers by ICANN.
lol "11%" i guess sounds a lot bigger than "two cents".
Don't bother asking why they're raising the prices. They'll just say "Because ICANN".
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Really need to add (2 cents) to the title. There are people in the comments who think it's 11% of the domain purchase price.