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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by wanderer2323 on Saturday December 10, 2022 @01:36AM (#33930487)
The exchange rate is not exact-on day. It's not exact-on-month even. I switched just a couple domain names from USD to TRY and calculated the exchange rate and e.g. $180 domains go for TRY 3200 which implies USD/TRY 17.78 -- last seen in July.

If the price of forum.dev is indeed $850 then the attached TRY 13040 invoice implies USD/TRY 15.34 which was last seen in May. The $12 domains go for TRY 75 which implies USD/TRY is 6.25, last seen in 2020.

It looks to me that the prices in TRY are simply set by hand and not refreshed that often. OP got a nice deal via such manually set price in 2021 and that's all that is going on here.

Disclaimer: I work at Google but I have absolutely nothing to do with domains or forex rates.

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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by sedatk on Saturday December 10, 2022 @07:44PM (#33938707)
Yes but that's plausible only if they had set the rate in 2018 and had never refreshed it for more than two years. "Not exact-on day" is a bit stretch to explain an almost a three year difference, isn't it?
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Re:Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850 by CydeWeys on Monday December 12, 2022 @10:28PM (#33964387)
That kind of does seem to be what actually happened, though.
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