Press about Nominet's 50% price rise

[Edwin]

This is a thread to keep tabs on the growing press coverage of the impending 50% price rise Nominet is foisting on us in March 2016.

Please please keep all posts in this thread a simple link to one or more news articles (suggested format below) There are many other threads for actual comments. That way they're all neat and tidy in one place if we need to refer to them later. Thanks!

The Register: Nominet to hike price of UK web domains by 50%
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2015/11/25/nominet_raises_price_uk_domains/

Wired UK: Cost of .uk domain names to rise 50% from 2016
http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2015-11/26/nominet-uk-domains-price-rise

Independent: Web domain registration cost soars as UK internet registry hikes prices by 50%
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-s...net-registry-hikes-prices-by-50-a6750496.html

Techweek Europe: Cost Of .UK Domains To Rise By 50 Percent
http://www.techweekeurope.co.uk/e-regulation/nominet-uk-domains-cost-increase-181339

PerformanceIN: Partner Jumps to Defence of Nominet’s 50% Hike on .co.uk Domains
http://performancein.com/news/2015/11/26/partner-jumps-defence-nominets-50-hike-couk-domains/

Gloucester Citizen: Domain name prices to increase by 50 per cent next year
http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/...50-cent-year/story-28246838-detail/story.html

Telecompaper: Nominet increases .uk domain wholesale price
http://www.telecompaper.com/news/nominet-increases-uk-domain-wholesale-price--1115599

 

[Edwin]

TechRadar: Nominet jacks up price of UK domains, further increases to come?
http://www.techradar.com/news/inter...uk-domains-further-increases-to-come--1309952

Domain Incite: Complaints over 50% .uk price hike
http://domainincite.com/19657-complaints-over-50-uk-price-hike

Domain Pulse: Nominet Ups Wholesale .UK Fee and Seeks Comments On Updated T&Cs
http://www.domainpulse.com/2015/11/27/nominet-ups-wholesale-uk-fee/

Digital Spy: Cost of .uk domain set to rise for the first time since 1999
http://www.digitalspy.com/tech/inte...in-set-to-rise-for-the-first-time-since-1999/

 

[martin-s]

Anyone tried the FSB?

 

[Stephen]

more coverage than .uk

Thanks for posting

More press coverage on this than the actual launch of .uk

 

[Edwin]

auDomainer: Trouble in .UK Land?
http://www.domainer.com.au/trouble-in-uk-land/