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Does anyone happen to know if gTLD operators are allowed to make price hikes targeted at a specific premium domain name? For example if the operator noticed tha
by daneel_w 4y ago
Does anyone happen to know if gTLD operators are allowed to make price hikes targeted at a specific premium domain name? For example if the operator noticed that the product/brand/company/site associated with some domain had suddenly become extremely popular, thus posing a potentially much higher reward than the initial annual renewal fee.
- agwa 4y agoICANN's standard registry agreement for gTLDs does not allow this, as explained in the article: > This means that Google is only allowed to increase a domain's renewal price if it also increases the renewal price of all other domains. If Google wants to charge more to renew a "premium" domain, the higher price must be clearly and conspicuously disclosed to the registrant at time of initial registration. This prevents Google from holding domains hostage: they can't set a low price and later increase it after your domain becomes popular.
- daneel_w 4y agoOh, that's exactly the answer I was looking for. I didn't read the entire article. Thank you for locating it for me.