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This year’s international domain price hikes are coming

Our international domain providers are charging us more, so we’re begrudgingly increasing some domain prices.

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New prices for some of the most popular international domains are coming into effect over the next few months.

These domain price increases aren’t something we want to be doing, but the reality is that domains are getting more expensive for us to provide. 

Prices for .com domains are going up on 1 Nov 2026, .info prices are going up on 19 Jan 2027, and .net goes up on 1 March 2027.

As is more or less an annual tradition at this point, our upstream provider has decided to increase the wholesale prices they charge. Our only practical option is to pass the increase on. Sorry.

New prices

When the changes come into effect, all renewals and new domains will happen under these new prices:

TLD

1-19

20-49

50-99

100-249

250-499

500-999

1000+

.com

(as of 1 Nov 2026)

$42

$39

$37
$35

$34
$32

$33
$31

$30
$28

$29
$27

$27
$25

.info

(as of 19 Jan 2027)

$73
$65

$72
$64

$70
$63

$69
$62

$68
$61

$67
$60

$66
$59

.net

(as of 1 Mar 2027)

$44
$40

$41
$37

$40
$36

$38
$35

$37
$34

$36
$33

$35
$32

There’s no planned change to .nz prices, but some other TLDs are affected. For a comprehensive list of domain pricing, log in to our Control Panel.

What’s dragging prices up?

We’ve been directly registering international domains from ICANN since 2024, which means we can buy .com and other international domains from them without going through a reseller. 

While ICANN serves as the regulator for domains like .com, .info and .net, those domains are operated day-to-day by a private company called Verisign. Prices are set by the for-profit company, who have been aggressive with price increases in recent years.

Back in 2023 we predicted that Verisign would do exactly this:

Every .com registration adds a little to Verisign’s bank balance, so it would be no surprise if .com wholesale prices went up every time the regulator allowed it.

Surprise, surprise, almost every year since we wrote that Verisign has increased prices for .com, .info and .net domains.

When we wrote about our ICANN accreditation a couple of years ago, we concluded that these price rises are mostly caused by:

  • Deregulation: ICANN has loosened the rules on domain price increases (letting Verisign increase price annually), and prices have predictably gone up since then.

  • Market concentration: Thanks to mergers and acquisitions in the industry, there are fewer domain name registries and registrars, and therefore less competition.

Better sooner than later

The best advice we have is to lock in domain prices with multi-year terms, before they inevitably go up in price again. 

With Verisign’s pattern of raising prices, today’s price will almost certainly be cheaper than future prices. If you know you’re going to be holding a domain for a while, you may as well lock cheaper prices in for longer now.

And again, we’re sorry about these price rises.

Prices in NZD, excluding GST