VeriSign announced that as of Oct. 15, 2007, the registry fee for .com domain names will increase from $6.00 to $6.42 and that the registry fee for .net domain names will increase, from $3.50 to $3.85. This will be the first registry fee increase for .com and .net since the fee structure was put in place by ICANN in 1999.

http://biz.yahoo.com/iw/070405/0234250.html

$6.42! .ie addresses are €83.50 a year-$112! .com is cheap, but not as personalised.