Verisign may again be able to raise wholesale prices for .com domains in late 2026, despite earlier assumptions that such an increase would not be permitted during that year. A closer reading of the company’s contractual framework suggests that the timing of past price increases has blurred how the pricing rules actually work.

For years, many observers believed that the final price increase in September 2024 exhausted Verisign’s ability to raise prices until at least 2027. This conclusion was based on the six-year pricing cycle defined in Verisign’s agreements, which allow increases in only four of those six years.

Because 2024 was treated as the last eligible year under the previous cycle, it was widely assumed that both 2025 and 2026 would be excluded. That assumption, however, relied more on Verisign’s past behavior than on the exact wording of the contracts.

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