.info registration fees to increase Oct. 15!

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Wholesale prices for Internet addresses ending in ".info" are going up 2.5 percent on Oct. 15. An increase of up to 10 percent a year was authorized under ICANN's latest contract with Afilias, dated Dec. 8. Afilias chose to increase fees by 15 cents, or 2.5 percent, to $6.15 Afilias did not cite a reason in its letter to ICANN. The ".info" suffix was one of seven ICANN approved in 2000 in the first major expansion of Internet addresses since the system was created in the 1980s. It is the world's sixth most popular domain name. ihostu.com is currently charging .99 cents for .info registrations until 6/30/2007 midnight!