Earlier today, DomainTools announced a change to its pricing and membership structure that will increase the membership cost. According to the email a few people sent me, “The price for Personal membership is $99/month or $995/year.”
“DomainTools’ business has changed dramatically over the last few years. In response to enterprise customer demand we have pivoted very heavily towards data and tools for cybersecurity threat intelligence and incident response. Make no mistake, we value our individual domain professional customers and each year of the 7 years I have been here we have opted *not* to affect any legacy membership types, in some cases honoring Silver Members paying $12 a month for nearly unlimited access to our data. But the complexity of managing a multi-tiered retail model with disparate membership types dating back to 2001 had become challenging. And the data systems we run today are more costly than 5 or 10 years ago. So we made the very very difficult decision to create a singular individual membership type that we felt we could support and at a price point that we could stick to for many years to come.”
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“DomainTools’ business has changed dramatically over the last few years. In response to enterprise customer demand we have pivoted very heavily towards data and tools for cybersecurity threat intelligence and incident response. Make no mistake, we value our individual domain professional customers and each year of the 7 years I have been here we have opted *not* to affect any legacy membership types, in some cases honoring Silver Members paying $12 a month for nearly unlimited access to our data. But the complexity of managing a multi-tiered retail model with disparate membership types dating back to 2001 had become challenging. And the data systems we run today are more costly than 5 or 10 years ago. So we made the very very difficult decision to create a singular individual membership type that we felt we could support and at a price point that we could stick to for many years to come.”
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