Re: [ga] VeriSign raises .com/net prices

[Bashar Al-Abdulhadi <bashar@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I wonder what 6.39 - 6.99 registrars would do in this case? would they 
just raise prices on their customers?


George Kirikos wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> See the press release at:
>
> http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=234250
>
> We have until October 15th to avoid the price increases.
>
> Of course, VeriSign tries to make it look like 30 billion queries per
> day is a lot. One need only look at: 
>
> http://system.opendns.com/
>
> (1 billion queries/day lately, operated free) to know that 1 billion
> isn't what it used to be. I'd be curous to know how many DNS queries
> are handled daily by GoDaddy, NSI, Amazon, eBay, Google, Yahoo,
> Microsoft, Akamai, etc., and whether their technology costs are rising
> 7% per year....
>
> Sincerely,
>
> George Kirikos
> http://www.kirikos.com/
>
>

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