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The other issue is with dark UI patterns in third party resellers, sure you can get some weird gTLD for $1 for the first year. But then if you actually build something that uses it, maybe the next year and the third year you find that the price is now $89/year. Totally undisclosed before you buy it.

At least if you buy a traditional ccTLD like .ca , or a regular TLD in .com , .net , whatever, you can expect pricing to remain consistent.

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But then it sounds like the $89 is not the general price of the TLD but rather your site as determined by the rate on how the registrar's been receiving queries for your domain on their DNS servers. Can't you "reset" the price by transferring to another registrar?

No, because it's not actually the resellers doing this. It's the people who own the tld doing the scammy pricing.

You mean the registry has the registrars do that? Do registries even have view on the popularity of different domains below their TLD? I didn't realize that they received requests from resolvers that included second-level domains. I thought it was only the registrars that received that, not the registries, but I guess misunderstood DNS if so, because it makes sense.

It's not popularity based. Everyone pays more to renew and it's a lot more than the initial price.

I really hate this. It's super scammy. Although namecheap does show a little message letting you know it costs more to renew.

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