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I believe Google is pretty transparent if you use Google Domains. For example if it's a premium domain it'll have the price per year, and a different price per

by adoxyz 4y ago

I believe Google is pretty transparent if you use Google Domains. For example if it's a premium domain it'll have the price per year, and a different price per year if it changes. Quick example: trouble.dev is $180/yr... meaning it's going to be $180 each year to renew trouble.art is $10,764 for the first year, and then $36/yr for renewals. There's plenty of non-premium .dev domains that are $12/yr. I do agree that charging premiums every year is a shitty move, but I don't think they're being overtly shady about it.

acdha 4y ago
According to the author, they changed it to premium after the fact: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33928401 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33928401
- adoxyz 4y ago
  I'm not sure that's the case. I assumed the author bought the domain initially for $850, thinking that at renewal it would go down to $12/yr, like most .com, .net, .org, etc. do, but was surprised to find out that the .dev premium domains charge the higher fee every year. I doubt forum.dev would have ever been $12/yr. Most single word .dev domains are marked as premium and vary from a few hundred to a few thousand dollars annually. I know because I had speak.dev at one point and it was $350/yr and renewal was $350/yr as well. Now if by some chance they initially paid $12/yr for it and now it's $850, then that is not ok and means that any .dev domain is at risk of dynamic pricing, which I feel like would kill the whole TLD forever for me.