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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by davchana on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:24PM (#33929159)
This game is as old as domains, or at least I knew it since 2005s.

.sbs registry has done it with my domain in 2021.

.xyz has done it another one of my domain few years ago.

None of my regular old tld domains, and cctld domains experienced it.

-footnote- I used to buy domains for my own use only, my family names & stuff, never for resale or business or anything.

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by everfree on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:53PM (#33929350)
Do you mind sharing more details?

Did the registrar email you at some point to tell you that they are no longer able to renew your domain at the standard rate, because the registry determined it to be a premium domain?

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by davchana on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:53AM (#33930292)
Yeah sure.

I usually stay on top of my domains, I found the way higher price for .sbs & .xyz when trying to renew them, at different times.

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by tsol on Friday December 09, 2022 @09:54PM (#33929361)
Sounds lucrative. I wonder what it takes to become a registrar
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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by davchana on Saturday December 10, 2022 @12:54AM (#33930295)
265 thousand non refundable fee + few months review process, as I was following the then-new gtld launches in 2011. May have increased now.
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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by IncRnd on Friday December 09, 2022 @11:10PM (#33929772)
It takes a few hundred thousand plus equipment and personnel.
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