Pricing would have to change so that $5/year * infinity = (new price) * 4% compounding interest * infinity. That is possible to do, but it would be expensive.

Pricing would have to change so that $5/year * infinity = (new price) * 4% compounding interest * infinity. That is possible to do, but it would be expensive. (Nobody is going to give up their $5/year just because it's hard to get people to renew the domain. As losing blogspot.in showed, someone was willing to pay when Google couldn't be reached to give them a working credit card.)