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This happened to me on Hover. The fishy part is if you say you won’t pay it and bargain it magically goes down to 50-90 usd. That makes me think they have contr
by rumori 4y ago
This happened to me on Hover. The fishy part is if you say you won’t pay it and bargain it magically goes down to 50-90 usd.
That makes me think they have control over the price and take a hit just to secure the lower amount.
I would not trust any of the registrars, not even Hover.
- ipaddr 4y agoThe 180 fee is a godaddy fee not a government fee. Other companies may charge a premium but many do not.
- crazygringo 4y agoAs far as I can tell from Googling, the €150 fee is something Verisign charges GoDaddy for domain redemption -- €150 is the rate for .com names, other TLD's have different rates. So no, it doesn't appear to be a GoDaddy fee at all. It appears they could charge a premium on top of that, but they don't appear to be doing so in this case (assuming it's a .com). (But correct that's it's not a government fee either.)
- throwaddzuzxd 4y agoRedemption fees are set by the registry, not the registrar. Of course the registrars apply their standard markup but I don't know of a registrar that will add an unreasonable markup to the already prohibitive restore prices. > That makes me think they have control over the price Well yeah, registrar is a business, of course you have some say on the price you sell your domains... But there's a base price that is set by the registry behind the registrars As an example, the .com is sold by Verisign (the registry) around 9 USD for the create/renew, but around 50 USD for the restore, depending on the negotiated price between the registrar and Verisign. So basically no registrar will allow you to restore a domain in redemption period for less than 50 USD.