The Mexican History.
In Mexico there is a monopoly called NIC Mexico, the only .MX domain name registrar since the beginning of internet in Mexico. Since 1989, the number of .MX domain has grown to almost a 220,000 active domain names right now.

The price for a .MX domain name is set by NIC Mexico to $35.00 USD, a price that is really expensive compared with other countries. You can make a cheap domain name registration for less than $9.99 USD with many registrars and as low as $6.99 with GoDaddy.com, and in Argentina for example, the domain names .com.ar are totally free, so domain name prices in Mexico are not cheap in any way.

Almost a GoDaddy.com Slogan.
GoDaddy.com says “A domain name is a domain name everywhere. Why pay more?”, and that’s a fact. They have a comparative table announcing low prices against Register.com, Network Solutions.com and eNom.com, companies that sell domain names in $35.00 dollars.

GoDaddy.com is well known all over the globe for being a cheap domain name registration company, and frequently they offer .com domain names for as low as $1.99 USD buying some [Read more →]

I used to buy Yahoo domain names as cheap as $1.99 dollars for the first year registration, after that, the renewal price for a Yahoo domain name was an affordable $ 9.90 each year. But those days are gone away. Since this month Yahoo has increased the domain name prices to $34.95 dollars for one year renewal as you can see in red boxes that show $34.95 for renewals and $9.00 if you want a private registration.

I agree that prices can suffer an increment with the time, but change from $9.90 to $34.95 it’s a 353% increment. What is the strategy behind this movement? Recover what Microsoft offered for the company? [Read more →]