Domain Registration

Last night I read a story about how our favorite company (Network Solutions) which controls the US Domain Name system (and the costs associated to it) has decided to raise the price... again.  So I hopped onto registrar account and checked out the status of my domains and nearly missed renewing a domain!  Since I have only a few domains that im using for personal (and work purposes now!) I'm renewing them for a few years before the "man" decides to raise prices again and again each year.  And I though yearly raises in apartment rents were bad :(