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The upside is that the higher price may be inhibiting squatting and thus you're more likely to find a good name available.
by slig 13y ago
The upside is that the higher price may be inhibiting squatting and thus you're more likely to find a good name available.
- kintamanimatt 13y agoActually, this is something I've found too, and people seem a little bit more motivated to actually use the domains they've bought. Plus I love this extension for web apps that are used by the tech community because they actually understand understand generic ccTLDs.
- chewmieser 13y agoExactly this. I was able to easily snag a two letter domain name (iz.io) before thanks to the high prices. Eventually let it expire when that startup had run its course though.
- larrys 13y ago"the higher price may be inhibiting squatting" The high price is a result of the fact that the base cost of the domain is much higher than it is for .com/.net/.org/.info. Here is the wholesale .io pricing which is based on volume (doesn't work that way for .com/.net/.org/.info) http://www.nic.io/join.html http://www.nic.io/join.html So for example nic.io regular price is $60 US. Even at the top bracket the best a registrar could do is $30 per domain. This is compared to around $8.xx for .com that a registrar pays (we are a registrar).