CIRA is raising prices (2.Viewing)

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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
 
MapleDots said:
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
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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...
 
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CatchDrop said:
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...
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This is simply CIRA grabbing more money for more reasons that are NOT related to running the .CA registry for the benefit of all Canadians. CIRA has all these pet projects that are beyond their mandate of running the .CA registry. This is the continued empire building off the backs of the .CA monopoly, and nothing more. CIRA is literally giving money away for various grants, but now they need to raise rates? I don't buy it. They are doing it just because they think they can get away with it - and that is it. If they stuck to just running the registry, I bet CIRA would need to charge a couple of bucks at most.
 
The price increase in 2018 was one of the many reasons I decided to bail on being a registrar. The additional cost coming in September is unnecessary.

CIRA must have some heavy salaries to pay for them to keep increasing the cost every 5 years. This 10% increase will most likely result in a 20% increase by registrars.
 
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.
 
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