Verisign, the Registry in charge of .com/.net gTLD’s will be raising the prices of these domains on October 15 2007. There will be a 7% increase on .com and a 10% increase on .net domains. We are still waiting for news on how our suppliers will act on the news from Verisign but I would expect prices to change slightly.

We would recommend everyone to renew their domains now to avoid the price increases. Both .com/.net domains can be registered for periods up to 10 years. If you have more than 5 domains in your portfolio with us then contact us and we will arrange a discount for you.

It’s worth noting that registering your domain names for longer periods may improve your websites rankings in Google. As spammers tend to buy and throw away domains, a long registration period is a good indication that your site is trustworthy. In their last patent (August 22, 2006) Google indicated that domain registration age could be a factor contributing to their ‘trustrank’ score for a website.