Increase the cost of bulk registration of. com and. NET domain names

On April 6, Internet domain name registration service provider Warisin (VeriSign) announced in Thursday that it plans to increase the cost of bulk registration of. com and. NET domain names to improve Internet infrastructure for more money this October 15.

According to the IDG news agency, Warisin said it could raise prices several times before the 2012 contract expires under an agreement with ICANN, the Internet domain name and address authority. This is the first time it has raised prices. Warisin is. com,. NET and. TV Domain name official registration institution.

From October 15 this year, the wholesale price of the. com domain name will rise from the original 6 U.S. dollars to 6.42 U.S. dollars, or 7%;.net domain name wholesale price will rise from 3.50 U.S. dollars to 3.85 U.S. dollars, or 10%.

According to the six-year contract signed with ICANN last March, Warisin can raise the registration price in four years, but the annual price increase for the. com domain name registration fee must not exceed 7%, but the price can be raised for security reasons or under the new ICANN policy in two outside two years.

The impact of the price hike on each domain name holders is different. Warisin only charge to domain name registration Agencies (registrar), which can be packaged together for sale with domain name registration services and web hosting services.

These agents, after paying the basic registration fee, can set prices for the services they provide to consumers or business users. Warisin says it manages more than 150 ICANN-mandated agents, which have filed more than 100 million domain-name transactions per day.

According to Warisin released data last month, as of the end of 2006,. com and. NET domain number reached 65 million, an average of 2.1 million new each month. After increasing the registration fee, the Warisin annual income can be increased by at least 22.7 million dollars.

Warisin said the new revenue would be invested in devices that deal with requests related to. com and. NET sites. Warisin is responsible for the operation of the DNS part of the server network. These servers can

A domain name, such as Www.admin5.com, is converted to a digital Web site address for Web browsers to crawl.

Warisin says the DNS system is under increasing pressure as Web access continues to grow. The number of requests that the company is now processing on its infrastructure for 2000 years has expanded to about 30 billion of the current 1 billion.

Warisin said in February this year that it plans to spend $100 million for infrastructure upgrades in the next 3 years. Once the project, named Titan, is completed, the Warisin bandwidth will be increased from 20GB per second to 200GB per second, which will be able to handle more than 4 trillion DNS requests per day.