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What possible costs increase could there be at nominet when they already have millions available to justify a whopping 50% rise in registration fees? So far I haven't heard a sensible answer beyond 'our costs have gone up' which totally doesn't address the money available, what these 'costs' are, and the huge pay rises for board members. I don't actually expect we'll ever get an answer because this suits Nominet and we all know from past experience they do what's best for them and the top few registrars. The registrants come a very poor second.
"However, it’s important to us that .UK domains represent value for money as well as quality, and the price we have set reflects that.” (from the press release).
Value for money should be a two way street. Nominet consider the wholesale price rise value for money to all parties including the company.
The following is an invented scenario by me just for debating and not based on anything I am aware of:
If Nominet hypothetically informed everyone that a certain percentage of the price rise might contribute towards currently unaccounted for/not firm/potential to be changed future ideas/investments/developments, whether domain or non domain name centric, would that serve in anyway to make the planned price rise more appetising?