> How is a $4.18 price increase worthy of millions of HN readers’ attention on Christmas? Because, personally, I was already bit in the ass by these price hike

> How is a $4.18 price increase worthy of millions of HN readers’ attention on Christmas? Because, personally, I was already bit in the ass by these price hikes from a gTLD. I started a personal website with a gTLD (.site) that I registered for about $1, and when it was close to expire suddenly the registrar demanded about $30 for it. I decided to jump ship to another gTLD and let the old one expire, to not support this kind of extorsion. Since then I've been monitoring the state of the old domain name. Oddly enough my old domain name was parked as a premium domain, being on the market for close to $22, while other domain names from the same gTLD are sold for about $1.55. In my opinion these gTLDs have been managed through extortion tactics, and I welcome any chance of discussing the subject.