VeriSign has recently announced that they will be raising .COM and .NET annual fees as of July 1st, 2010. ICANN has an agreement that VeriSign is allowed to raise their .COM fees by up to 7% per year. VeriSign took advantage of this in the first two years of its contract, raising .COM registration from $6.00 to $6.86. It was assumed that VeriSign would increase its prices every year to maximize profits, but it did not in 2009.
DNS-Luxembourg Announces The Opening of IDNS
As of February 1st 2010 registration of domain names with special characters in them, like for example a letter with an accent, called Internationalized Domain …








