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hsbauauvhabzb | on: #41514229
It’s worse if you stop using the phrase ‘buy’ and instead use the term ‘rent’. A DNS provider could 10,000x your domain cost and there’s nothing you can do about it.
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Tepix | parent | next
No kidding. I had a one letter .tm domain name back in the 90s and they (Turkmenistan) increased the fee to $1000/year.
darby_nine | root | parent
Tbh this seems like a win—you want to incentivize making as much use of those short domains as possible.
snypher | root | parent
Is this like forcing a tenant out of a property because you wish to raise the rent?
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j-bos | parent | next
Can they? I thought ICANN prevented such steep increases?
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