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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by deathanatos on Friday December 09, 2022 @08:39PM (#33928890)
The DNS namespace is global and shared. There's only one, really; I don't know if it is the best place for a [free] "market", as it isn't really free. Within reason, I can't start a competing DNS. The best I can do is choose another name … and still pray the price jacking doesn't happen.

The incentives here are perverse: the registry knows that changing domain names has a high switching cost; we should not have the "market" dynamics encouraging them to start, effectively, extorting domain owners. "That web presence you built up? It would be a shame if anything were to happen to it…"

I actually thought there were ICANN rules against this sort of thing.

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by quickthrower2 on Friday December 09, 2022 @10:25PM (#33929567)
With so many TLDs, and the acceptance of domain hacks, e.g. usefennel.co (available lol!) if your name is fennel, I think there is plenty of competition.

The real estate analogy is good. Find a cheap town!

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by deathanatos on Tuesday December 13, 2022 @03:02AM (#33966041)
Coming up with a variant — like "usefennel" for "fennel", is covered in the comment you're replying to. You're still at the whim of the registry/registrar, if they start pulling this crap.
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