The ICANN looks to introduce tiered pricing for .biz, info and .org gTLD domain names

All domain name owners, in the world, count on the fact that every year, the domain name renewal price should be stable between 6$US and 12$US, depending on the related services.

The ICANN is currently looking to enact a tiered pricing policy that would allow registrars to charge whatever they decide to renew a .biz, .info or .org domain name.

Here’s the way this nightmarish scenario plays out.

You buy a given domain name and you build it up. Visitors come in larger numbers and you’re finally on the first page of the search engine results. You’re quite happy with the way things are going. Life is good.

Then, one morning, you get a message from your registrar requesting that you renew your domain name for another year, based on the ICANN’s newly approved tiered pricing and this means instead of paying, let’s say 10$US a year, you’ll be charged 75,000$US because your domain name is now associated with a web site that is getting more attention (all based on the sole registrar’s appreciation).

Is that the worst nightmare ever, or what?

The simple fact the ICANN is looking to go forward with this terribly bad piece of legislation shows it has little or no respect for 99.999% of us, loyal domain name registrants.

If you don’t act now and tell the ICANN it’s proposed plan makes no sense and threatens to litterally stiffle, freeze and kill any kind of innovation online, next Monday, it might be too late… so act now!

Here’s how, write a message to any of these Public Comment Forums using the corresponding email addresses. For instance, I wrote to the biz-tld-agreement@icann.org forum because I own excellent .biz names.

Don’t take any chances, the ICANN has a troubled history of lacking good judgement and unilaterally favoring “registrar” friends, in their previous decisions — act now or risk seeing the end of the internet, as we know it.

Tags: icann, domain names, domains, legislation, registrars, .biz, .info, .org