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Registrars raising prices
Received this in my inbox today from spaceship:
We partner with many registries to bring you a wide range of top-level domains, but occasionally their prices increase, which means we need to increase our prices too.
On August 26, 2025 at 10:00 AM ET the domain registry for the following domains will implement universal price increases, on registrations, reactivations, renewals, and transfers.
Updated prices
.lat: $25.88
.pic: $25.88
.lol: $25.88
.ceo: $87.98
.xyz, .monster, .quest, .beauty, .hair, .skin, .makeup, .homes, .autos, .motorcyles, .boats, .yachts: $12.52
What to do next
If you want to take advantage of the current price tag, register, reactivate, renew, or transfer your domains before August 26, 2025.
I assume other registrars will follow suit in short order.
Comments
yeah got the same mail
Well its not spaceship
Its registrars
Sigh
I have amended the title. In the strictest literal sense both spaceship and registrars are raising prices. To say that "its not spaceship" is false.The intent of the post is to inform not to blame.
these extensions are useless.
luckily, they still keep .com cheapest.
TLD pricing increasing every year is about as sure as cPanel increasing their pricing every year.
I don't get who is buying these alt tlds, most of them are too expensive and I rarely see them used in practice. How does it return any money for the registries?
When they dont increase prices??
I hope they make it 10x times more
A lot of domains are registered with itent to resell
Good domains sit unused.
just look at the turnover and profit of Verisign per employee....
While in general I agree with this statement, I think there will be a bubble effect as available domains diminish. Eventually there will be so many .com that new registrations will decline and lead to a drop in registration fees (if not renewal fees). That's my theory anyways.
Instead of increasing registration fees they could make nice coin scaling renewal fees that increase for every year a domain is parked. But i doubt this will ever happen because the parties holding the good domains to resell are likely the same parties deciding policy.
I buy them sometimes just to try something new or do something fun in the short term if I can register them with a coupon for less than the price of a soda pop. I agree the renewal fees seem high and I'll likely not renew, but 1$ a year isn't a bad cost to rent a toy or try something crazy once in a while. You can't get a snickers for that price.
It's a great greediness!
.xyz, .lol are on top in Spamhaus list, many mailservers block new extensions like that
Big brands have to buy all these extensions, at sunrise. But this is about 25$ * 1 000 brands = 25k per year for each extension.
Well spaceship.com and others have no choice but to pass it to consumers. Why would anyone absorb solves in an already competitive landscape with cut throat profit margins ranging in pennies
They have been transparent on its coming via the registry.
Let's not forget how Namecheap raised their renewal prices well above the registry price increases, but blamed the registries for it. They're the same company, they'll be using the same tactics.
The whole business model is start with low rates, get a bunch of customers in, then slowly boil the frog with higher rates until everyone has moved on to the new cheap registrar (which they also own!). Rinse, repeat.
yes, eventually spaceship (namecheap's sister company) will follow the same.
I'm a bit surprised -- perhaps I shouldn't be -- by the price rise for
.xyxdomains, but perhaps this is part of an effort to improve the general reputation of the TLD.xyzThe main advantage of the new gTLDs was in price (and also word options). I am quite confident prices will drop once this economic bubble starts to burst.
Hopefully the price won't increase for the cheap numeric .xyz's. I got a 6 digit .xyz earlier this year for $0.67 from spaceship.
I got two or three of them too.
Domains to forget, even xyz raises, that had been cheap for years.
Assuming, they raise price to avoid spammers and attrakt domains for bigger companies and trustworthy use without blacklisting on spamhaus.
Time to renew your 6-digit .xyz domains for multiple years in case it's affected.
I should do the same
It's not clear if the 6-9 digit .xyz domains are affected by the price increase or not. And if it is, by how much.