lotsofcoffee
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Wholesale price of .ca domains increasing to $10.50 on September 1 (from $9.50).
(In 2018 price was increased from $8.50 to $9.50).
(In 2018 price was increased from $8.50 to $9.50).
This is not the best news for me at least.CIRA is making so much money, there is no real cost to justify this increase.
Here is my take on it....
With every dollar they increase my costs of ownership on multiple domains goes up and I end up dropping a few hundred I was kind of sitting on the fence on.
In the end people will register less and CIRA will lose out.
There is no reason a .ca should cost over 10 bucks from the CIRA end
This is not the best news for me at least.
We are the First and the Only Registrar that vowed to forever offer .CA domains registrations at COST PRICE FOREVER!
Many have warned us To Not Say FOREVER etc... But Still RegisterDomain.ca will never change that vision PERIOD.
I Yaacov Abenhaim personally as the CEO of the company started this entire journey with this concept in mind -
AT COST REGISTRATIONS IN LIGHT TO ENTICE AND DOUBLE OR TRIPLE THE CURRENT NUMBER OF TOTAL .CA REGISTRATIONS!
Which will be benefit everyone, the government, the registry, the investors, the entire Country & TLD as a whole.
.CA domains have extreme potential in so many ways due to a multitude of factors, I will detail all this potential factors in a future post as it's an entire huge conversation subject by itself.
But it if any ccTLD has it, it's definitely .CA, but it needs marketing and especially education to the general Canadian public so the average Canadian can understand the value of the internet, it's capabilities and the role that the domain name has in all of this eco system.
Many know but most don't, and that's the actual reality.
Now will $1.00 dollar change anything on any side ? NO!!!
But in my personal opinion I believe that the time has not matured yet for a price increase.
At any rate RegisterDomain.ca will always offer at COST .CA Domain Registrations FOREVER, and best of all we will be releasing many updates that will definitely make our user interface & overall platform an absolute pleasure for the pros & an easy friendly platform for the newbies.
.CA to the MOON...
Even more important, having a close eye on what they are doing with the money....I just went through some of my remaining domains at godaddy and set all of them to not renew.
Those were the domains I was undecided about and in my case that nullifies any profit CIRA would have made on me with a price increase.
I know it won't matter to the decision makers at CIRA but it matters to me. In the end this is the only way I can show my displeasure.
Next we have to talk about getting on board with CIRA, I recently freed up some time by removing myself from one of my businesses. This will be a great time for me to get involved with CIRA and I think I may toss my hat into the ring come the next election. It's about time domainers like us have proper representation at CIRA to assure we are part of the decision making process.
There is only usually one member nominated seat per year, all the other ones are selected by the nominating committee first.You do realize, if enough of us run we could actually lower the price right?
There is only usually one member nominated seat per year, all the other ones are selected by the nominating committee first.
It's essentially a forced "charitable" contribution by registrants, so they can then give our money away to others. It's better to leave the money in the pockets of consumers, who can decide how to best spend their own money.
This is the continued empire building off the backs of the .CA monopoly, and nothing more.
.COM is going up again, yes and it did last year too.CIRA money grab, being run like a government to make itself bigger and create new wasteful programs. Except, they can't create or borrow endless money so it has to come from registrations. That's almost a 25% increase from 2018 then. Would be nice to create our own lobby group and increase domainer and common sense representation at CIRA over time. Isn't .com going up this year too? maybe other extensions too.
AND that lobby organization for domainers has none other than @Zak as its General Counsel. But I don't see trying to convince CIRA to not raise their prices as a major priority for the ICA compared to other priorities like UDRP reform and domain transfer rights and stopping whois service from getting even worse..COM is going up again, yes and it did last year too.
Lobby organization for domainers, you say? It exists... Home - InternetCommerce.org . The Domain Name Owners Association of Canada existed, too and was shut down due to a lack of interest/participation.