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I had a gut feeling it will be '.cd' before clicking on the article and I was right. Dealing with the state entity (SCPT) that manages this TLD is quite a pain. It's so painful that I've given up managing all the .cd domains I used to own.

.cd domains are also some of the most expensive to get. Hopefully the new government will take this seriously.

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What’s to stop a TLD seller doubling their price? Is there any regulation against the practice?

There was some discussions here recently about this, and from memory the answer was nothing, except reputation. They're free to do whatever they please with it, though jacking the price suddenly might not be great business long term.

> .cd domains are also some of the most expensive to get. Hopefully the new government will take this seriously.

I bought one a few years ago for 80 Euros / year. Aren't there a lot of TLDs that are way more expensive?

Kiribati (.ki) comes to mind - 900€ per year via ghandi.net or 1350€ at eurodns...

According to tld-list.com, the .th TLD is the most expensive ccTLD at $5000 and .ru is the cheapest at $2.99

Top-level .th (Thailand) is very expensive, but .co.th is reasonable ($50/yr).

But you do need to have a registered business in Thailand with the exact name as the domain name to register the domain.That's a fact for co.th, I'm not sure about .th though, but I would assume it to be true.

The new crop of TLDs are really cheap. I bought a .download for like $2 a year or something. Not all are that cheap (I bought it as a throwaway for a project that relied on my having DNS control) but there are literally hundreds of them that are.

Only issue is I don't think there's anything preventing the price going sky-high in coming years, for most of these TLDs. For a throwaway it doesn't matter, but could really hurt if you start relying on one.

Not too many ccTLDs. AI comes to mind (Anguilla, expensive for obvious reasons), but it’s still cheaper than .CD.

Many gTLDs are expensive due to their target demographics or to dissuade bad actors (eg .auto, .bank).

You can register/renew it for $59, see https://tld-list.com/tld/cd

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