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Why Renew in December?

With a few major registries scheduling price increases in the New Year, renewing now can save a lot of money!  Renew for multiple years in order to save even more over the long term.

 

REMINDER: .COM & .NET Price Increase - January 15, 2012

VeriSign the official registry for .COM and .NET Domains will be increasing the annual prices for .COM and .NET domains starting January 15, 2012.  Prices keep on going up, renew now on your .COM/.NET domains and save money.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A REGISTRY (VERISIGN) PRICE INCREASE ONLY.

 

REMINDER: .BIZ Price Increase - February 1, 2012

NeuStar also announced that the Registry will be increasing the annual prices for .BIZ domains starting February 1, 2012.  More price increases are expected, renew your .BIZ domains now and save money.

PLEASE NOTE THAT THIS IS A REGISTRY (NEUSTAR) PRICE INCREASE ONLY.

* The GROSS price includes Germany's 19% VAT; many resellers pay the lower NET price without VAT.


REMINDER: DNS for External Domains ONLY - Price Increase

For domains registered at other registrars but are using HEXONET for DNS (External Domain), starting January 1, 2012, DNS fees will be increasing for these external domains.  Again this is ONLY FOR EXTERNAL DOMAINS, while domains registered at HEXONET/1API are not affected and DNS is completely FREE of charge as usual.

This price increase is due to the rising cost of managing external domains.  Since external domains are at another registrar and not directly under the control of HEXONET, when various DNS issues occur, for instance DDOS, the cost to mitigate the issues are exponentially higher.

Current External Zone Prices:

Basic Costs per Zone:  0.36* (net price 0.30) EUR/Year

RRs(*) inclusive: 10

Additional RRs(*): 0.0476* (net price: 0.04) EUR/RR

NEW External Zone Prices Starting  January 1, 2012:

Basic Costs per Zone:  4.28* (net price: 3.60) EUR/Year

RRs(*) inclusive: 10

Additional RRs(*): 0.54* (net price: 0.45) EUR/RR

* The GROSS price includes Germany's 19% VAT; many resellers pay the lower NET price without VAT.

 

WHOIS Reseller Branding for .CO Domains

The .CO registry allows registrars to insert information about a reseller into the .CO WHOIS record for a domain. HEXONET is happy to announce two new fields for the .CO domain whois output - Reseller Name and Homepage URL.  

Domain Name:                SOMEDOMAIN.CO
Domain ID:                     D12345-CO
Registrar-Reseller Name:  Reseller LLC
Registrar-Reseller URL:     http://www.resellerhomepage.com
...

We see this feature as a value-add for our resellers and have therefore implemented these additional extensions into our API commands.  These extensions are AddDomain and ModifyDomain, the same parameters already deployed for .com and .net:

COMMAND     = ModifyDomain
DOMAIN      = somedomain.co
X-WHOIS-RSP = Reseller LLC
X-WHOIS-URL = http://www.resellerhomepage.com

If explicit WHOIS branding parameters are not utilized, then the default values are used as entered in the "WHOIS Branding" section of the Control Panel, which can be found under "Manage Account > My Settings".