Verisign Corporation, which controls the domain zones .COM, .NET and some others, informed registrars about the increase in prices for .COM domains from $ 6 to $ 6.42. It is expected that registrars will raise prices in approximately the same proportion (if they are not particularly greedy).
Verisign, according to its contract with ICANN , is entitled to an annual increase in the price of domain names, but not more than 7%. Given the fact that 65 million domain names were registered in the .COM zone, Verisign added an additional $ 27 million in revenue to the company with a light hand movement. Well live monopolists, to be sure.