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For those who do not remember, Google did an auction for .dev domains when it was first released in 2019. I think it was something like that every week the pric
by Nican 4y ago
For those who do not remember, Google did an auction for .dev domains when it was first released in 2019. I think it was something like that every week the price was halved until it reached the $12/year.
I bought a .dev domain from Google, when the auction was at $200/year. Every renewal period has been $100/year. If there is a way to decrease it to $12/year, that would be great.
EDIT: Looking at other comments on this thread, looks like that Google is dynamically price adjusting renewal costs? I am sad that yet another pillar of the original free internet seems to be falling even further pray to capitalism.
- lupire 4y agoWhat is that pillar? Google was never a pillar of free Internet.
- Nican 4y agoCheap DNS registration, and being able to keep it at the same price. What I am wondering right now is if there is any regulation about buying a domain, building a popular product on top of it, and then having your registrar keep increasing the renewal cost. (Something that I never considered, but now looks possible)
- matheusmoreira 4y agoDomain names used to be cheap and accessible to everyone. Now DNS makes me wish Tor would replace this rotten web with hidden services.
- bityard 4y agoThat doesn't sound anything like an auction...
- Nican 4y agoPrice decreases as time passes? It is called an Dutch auction. [1] The most famous example I can think of is the flower auction/Amsterdam clock.[2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dutch_auction [2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdmzyKagvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAdmzyKagvE
- lern_too_spel 4y agoIt's a Dutch auction.
- ranger_danger 4y agoMy outrageous renewal price for a .dev only kicked in after I failed to renew it before expiration because I could not find the right website to login to (whois showed both tucows and hover but the site was actually enom).
- Arcuru 4y agoThey price some names as premium and charge a specific amount for them, they seem to have a number of different tiers. I bought a Premium domain from them during the auction, and still pay for it. They've always been very clear about the renewal cost both before I bought it in the auction and every year on renewal.
- EugeneOZ 4y agotopic-starter clearly mentioned that the domain was purchased one year ago, not in 2019.