Four registries are increasing the wholesale prices of their top-level domains (TLDs) this year, with some prices increasing as much as 135%.
In less than 2 days, Verisign will increase the wholesale price of .com domain names from $8.97 to $9.59 (6.91% increase). Additionally, XYZ.COM LLC will increase their wholesale price of .xyz from $9.15 to $10 (9.29% increase).
Wholesale domain name prices are the prices charged to registrars (retail sellers of domain names) by registries (owners of top-level domain names) when a retail customer purchases a domain name.
These higher prices will be passed on to customers, and registrars such a Porkbun, Namecheap, and Dynadot have already announced their planned price increases.
List of TLD Wholesale Price Changes
Below is a list of the planned price changes for 211 TLDs, including the percentage increase and the associated registry.
All prices are wholesale, and exclude the $0.18 ICANN fee that is charged per every gTLD domain registration, renewal, and transfer. The effective dates are in the UTC timezone.