VeriSign announces price increase.
VeriSign (NASDAQ: VRSN) announced today that it is raising wholesale prices of .com domain names.
Effective November 1, the price will increase 7% from $10.26 to $10.97 per year.
Verisign last raised prices in September 2024.
Per its contract with the National Telecommunications and Information Administration and ICANN, it may raise prices by up to 7% in each of the last four years of its six-year contract periods.
The third contract year begins on October 26. If Verisign elects to raise prices 7% per year, the price will increase to $13.42 by the end of this contract cycle.
The price increases will pad Verisign’s already healthy bottom line. For 2025, Verisign’s gross margin was 88%, and its operating margin was 68%. Those are among the highest in the S&P 500.
Consumers can get ahead of the price increase by renewing domain names before the new prices kick in.
