<story><title>Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>$9.73 renewals at Porkbun.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;porkbun.com&amp;#x2F;tld&amp;#x2F;com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;porkbun.com&amp;#x2F;tld&amp;#x2F;com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Namecheap&amp;#x27;s current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $0.18 ICANN fee
  $8.97 Verisign&amp;#x27;s current registry fee
  $5.43 Namecheap&amp;#x27;s markup
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Namecheap&amp;#x27;s new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
  $9.59 Verisign&amp;#x27;s new registry fee (7% increase)
  $6.11 Namecheap&amp;#x27;s new markup (13% increase)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
So the price increase is not entirely &amp;quot;out of [Namecheap&amp;#x27;s] control&amp;quot;.  They are also increasing their markup.&lt;p&gt;Edit: fixed error in Namecheap&amp;#x27;s markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfoster</author><text>Pricing like that makes me uncomfortable.&lt;p&gt;Even if they have a tiny margin on the domain costs, that means that they are probably a loss-making business. So they plan to just sell to Google, Amazon or Microsoft in the future, and we don&amp;#x27;t yet know which one of those it&amp;#x27;s going to be?&lt;p&gt;Even if they had a small margin, does that mean that there&amp;#x27;s poor quality support, despite domains being mission-critical to businesses?</text></comment>
<story><title>Upcoming .com and .xyz domain price increase</title><url>https://www.namecheap.com/blog/upcoming-com-and-xyz-domain-price-increase/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>tiffanyh</author><text>$9.73 renewals at Porkbun.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;porkbun.com&amp;#x2F;tld&amp;#x2F;com&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;porkbun.com&amp;#x2F;tld&amp;#x2F;com&lt;/a&gt;</text></item><item><author>agwa</author><text>Namecheap&amp;#x27;s current .com renewal price of $14.58 is broken down as:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $0.18 ICANN fee
  $8.97 Verisign&amp;#x27;s current registry fee
  $5.43 Namecheap&amp;#x27;s markup
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
Namecheap&amp;#x27;s new .com renewal price of $15.88 will be broken down as:&lt;p&gt;&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;  $0.18 ICANN fee (no change)
  $9.59 Verisign&amp;#x27;s new registry fee (7% increase)
  $6.11 Namecheap&amp;#x27;s new markup (13% increase)
&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
So the price increase is not entirely &amp;quot;out of [Namecheap&amp;#x27;s] control&amp;quot;.  They are also increasing their markup.&lt;p&gt;Edit: fixed error in Namecheap&amp;#x27;s markup - thanks everyone for pointing that out!</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>fullstackchris</author><text>Wow! Porkbun! I nearly forgot about that place!&lt;p&gt;Shamelessly been using Namecheap for a while now... their UI is a bit old school but they have some of the best prices around (at least did)</text></comment>