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Can you transfer it to a less greedy registrar? Or is it always a TLD-wide issue? This is highway robbery.. maybe even worse than being robbed. Imagine if yo
by metadat 4y ago
Can you transfer it to a less greedy registrar? Or is it always a TLD-wide issue?
This is highway robbery.. maybe even worse than being robbed.
Imagine if your mobile phone plan rate could vary on a floating basis year by year depending on how "premium" the carrier decides your number is. Gross.
- thebooktocome 4y agoChinese mobile carriers used to (and may still) do exactly this. Numbers with multiple 8’s were more valuable because 8 is lucky, whereas a single 4 (a homophone for “death”) meant a reasonable discount.
- metadat 4y agoIt's also a thing with US-based numbers, e.g. repeating digits. However, the pricing not variable year over year, and may even be only a one-time fee if at all. Once you are assigned the number, it's yours and the annual reservation price doesn't change significantly. This instance is straight up Google acting in bad faith with the bait and switch. Are they really that desperate to make a few extra bucks? What PM decided this was a good idea? Day by day, Big-G is burning every ounce of public goodwill they ever had, speedily on their way to sinking down to FB Meta territory.
- DelightOne 4y agoOne can argue scalpers expecting 3000 for a domain means the domain is premium-enough to be worth that renewal.
- KomoD 4y agoI'm pretty sure it's TLD-wide basically all/most of the time.
- simfree 4y agoIt's usually a choose your own frontend registrar for the TLD. Whether that is Gandi, Namecheap, Google Domains, Cloudflare, etc. But the TLDs fix the price underneath, registrars are just resellers.
- warbler73 4y ago