Uniregistry is greatly increasing the prices of their new gtls:
http://domainincite.com/21603-schilling-big-price-increases-needed-to-keep-new-gtlds-alive
.juegos - from about $10 retail to about $300
.hosting - from about $20 retail to about $300
Some quotes:
I was standing next to Frank Schilling at a cocktail party years ago in Las Vegas before he released any of his new gtlds and he was telling us about the importance of low prices, how he was giong to run domainer friendly gtlds, and that we should "back up the truck" and load it with his new gtlds. If I had done that, I'd be broke now.. goes to show how even the top people can get it wrong.
http://domainincite.com/21603-schilling-big-price-increases-needed-to-keep-new-gtlds-alive
.juegos - from about $10 retail to about $300
.hosting - from about $20 retail to about $300
Some quotes:
At a higher price point, the marketing can scale, but we just can’t do it on base registrations of ten bucks or twenty bucks
Within ten years, will it be bigger? Absolutely. It’ll be quintuple what it is today,” he said. “But we need to get to 10 years, and to keep the lights on between here and there we need higher prices, without question
I was standing next to Frank Schilling at a cocktail party years ago in Las Vegas before he released any of his new gtlds and he was telling us about the importance of low prices, how he was giong to run domainer friendly gtlds, and that we should "back up the truck" and load it with his new gtlds. If I had done that, I'd be broke now.. goes to show how even the top people can get it wrong.