Guess the period of domain name prices decreasing is over now thanks to Verisign’s monopoly.

With about 62 million “.com” names and 9.1 million “.net” names in use, VeriSign stands to ultimately make $29 million a year from the increase, which will take effect Oct. 15. However, the price hike applies only to new name registrations and renewals, and customers can lock in the old prices until Oct. 14.

We have dozens and dozens of domains and while I’d rather see the price go down (who wouldn’t) I’m not going to bark about a 7% increase, assuming our registars don’t tack on even more than that. Haven’t seen any notice at any of the registrars we use yet of what the actual dollar increase will be but I found it curious that the wholesale price the USA TODAY story notes is more than we already pay.

For some odd reason the two most active months for domain renewals in our business are March and April. I guess we get the Spring urge to start new projects or something. What month do most your domains renew? And has your domain registrar announced new prices yet?