domisfera VeriSign will raise the price of .com and .net domains since October 1, 2008
by domisfera (.com, .net)

30 March 2008 Estimated reading time: 0,49 minutes.
On the same day that Domain Name Wire published a email sent by VeriSign to the Registrars, the company announced in a press release that from the day October 1, 2008 the rate charged for the .com domains will rise from 6.42$ to 6.86$ (+ 6.85%) and .net  will rise from 3.85$ to 4.23$ (+ 9.87%). 

The prices go up! (again)

According to VeriSign contracts with ICANN and the Department of Commerce of the United States is empowered to raise .com up to 7% and .net up to 10% each year. That was exactly the price increases implemented VeriSign last year. This year, VeriSign almost reached those figures.

In two years .com domains will move from 6$ to 6.86$ (+ 14.33%) and .net domains from 3.50$ to 4.23$ (+ 20.85%). While the year 2007 was the first since 1999 that prices rose VeriSign seems to be the trend in the coming years because the arguments to justify the rise this year are very similar to those of last year: to increase the capacity of the infrastructure DNS and to increase security against increasingly numerous and sophisticated cyber attacks.

As a counterpoint to these justifications, Karl Auerbach (a former board member of the ICANN), said last year at this time that VeriSign could spend less than 0.14$ in order to maintain a domain registration.

 

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domisfera Latin American domains stats (February 2008)
by domisfera (Stats)

26 March 2008 Estimated reading time: 1,41 minutes.

The latest statistics domain Latinoamericann aiming to measure the impact of policies for the Information Society in the development of Latin American ccTLDs throw the following details until February 29, 2008.

 Latino American domains up to february 2008

In February ccTLDs that had a higher percentage growth were: Costa Rica .cr (6.72%), Peru .pe (5.33%) and Bolivia .bo (4.44%). The case of Costa Rica is explained by the announcement and the opening of registration of second-level domains. Peru continues to grow due to the opening of IDN domain name registration and second level that has already done in previous months. The case of Bolivia is linked to an aggressive marketing strategy in order to pay for the domain names in installments.

This month highlights the negative growth (-21.22%) .do domains from the Dominican Republic due to the cleansing of records unpaid. Domains .cu of Cuba remain at its usual line had decreased by 0.35%. The .sv domains of El Salvador having had a profound process of purification, have restarted a process of growth.

The largest increases in absolute values of the past month are for Argentina .ar (26,031), Brazil .br (9,854) and Mexico .mx (3,679). These positions are filled by the same ccTLDs that last month, with a higher increase in registered domains.

Latinoamericann could not obtain data from Trinidad and Tobago .tt or Barbados .bb. In the case of Barbados has been a process of redelegation before and while it was possible to perform a whois and view data registered domains this is no longer feasible under the new administration.

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domisfera The .cu domains of Cuba
by domisfera (.cu (Cuba))

11 March 2008 Estimated reading time: 1,24 minutes.

I recently saw that Cuba had only 1,434 .cu domains registered. 12.75 domains per 100,000 inhabitants. It is one of the four last ccTLDs in Latin America by number of domains registered. Globally ranked 49, ahead of Algeria (.dz domains).

He is Camilo CienFuegos in a note signed by Che Guevara

The first drawback is the price. Although for entities located in Cuba is cheaper (222.7 Cuban pesos in the first year and 151 from the second) for non located on the island price is $350 for .com.cu and $600 for .cu domains. Both prices are for registrations and renewals.

The second drawback is that they can not register domains individuals, they can only do legal persons. If they are foreign in addition must meet these conditions:

(1) The application shall be made through agents residing in the Republic of Cuba authorized thereto.
(2) Data on Administrative and Financial Contact will be those for the Agent.
(3) Data from the Technical Contact may correspond to the Agent, a national entity or a foreign entity.

When submitting a certification trademark or other distinguishing marks issued by a foreign registration office, the document will be endorsed by the Cuban Office of Industrial Property.
If not, requires a prior Trademark Search. The process lasts for a month and cost about $100. 

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