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Oh good, it will remain available at the low, low price of half a million per year. That soothes my worries entirely.
by oauea 5y ago
Oh good, it will remain available at the low, low price of half a million per year. That soothes my worries entirely.
- CydeWeys 5y agoYou're painting a very broad brush with that one extreme outlier. Most registries don't operate like that; stay away from the few that do.
- josephcsible 5y agoIsn't the problem that there's nothing preventing all of the registries of new gTLDs from suddenly starting to operate like that tomorrow?
- lbotos 5y agoHow does one know if they are picking a registry that doesn't operate like that? I have a benign gTLD that went from $10 -> $30 next year... I shudder to think what it will be in 5. EDIT: Also I just looked, and most are doing a thing were the y will let you get the first year for $12 or so, and then every year after is $25+.
- CydeWeys 5y agoI'm still waiting on them to say which TLD this was. The big operators don't randomly make drastic price changes like that. This bizarre incident is getting outsized attention that I don't think it merits. Frankly, a premium price of hundreds of thousands per year sounds like an out-and-out mistake somewhere; no one is paying that, certainly not on a random first name on a random nTLD. That's simply not a successful business strategy; you'd lose all your registrations by doing it. Which TLD went from $10 to $30/yr? There's a lot of missing info in these comments! On the other hand, first year discounting is (as you're seeing) quite common. So just treat the 2nd year price as the actual price for the purpose of deciding whether you're willing to pay it. The key difference here is that you know the price schedule up front.