Fees for registering a website name on the Internet could increase for consumers this week.
VeriSign Inc. which manages the directory of all domain names worldwide, plans to raise its fees for listing .com and .net domains starting July 1.
Companies that sell domain names, such as Vancouver-based Dotster and Arizona-based GoDaddy, will pay $7.34, up 7 percent from $6.86, to register .com domains and $4.65, up 10 percent from $4.23, for .net domains. Registrars may pass that cost on to consumers.
VeriSign said its fee increase will help pay for infrastructure improvements needed to manage increased demand for domain name queries on its system.
Traffic at Verisign has increased from about 2 billion queries per day in the year 2000 to more than 50 billion queries per day in 2010, according to the company.
