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No, because for .com there is a free market and you can take your domain to another registrar. Google owns and operates these tlds and is effectively a monopol

• toast0 4y ago
  Afaik, other registrars service the .dev TLD as well. The problem is that Google is the registry, and it seems that their contract with ICANN lets them charge more for premium domains and mark domains as premium as they see fit; but I didn't look up the contract to check. With .com, the contract between Verisign and ICANN specifies a maxium price and that price descrimination is not allowed. Edit: I found the gTLD base agreement[1], but didn't go looking further. It says, the registry needs to charge everyone the same price unless the registrant agreed to higher renewal pricing at the time of initial registration. I didn't look to see if there is any more specific agreement for .dev. But it seems like if this wasn't disclosed and explicitly agreed to during registration, the registry is in the wrong. However, a lot of people agree to things without paying attention. Would be good to check original paperwork and then see about how to get the registry's attention. [1] https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/agreement-approved-31jul17-en.html#article2.10 https://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/agreements/ag...
• charcircuit 4y ago
  How is Verisign any less of a monopoly than Google?