More power to you man 30 bucks or something... is that per year too when you renew it? I'm cheap, $4-5/mo VPS runs my sites at this time (also means hardly any traffic/no ROI but whatever). So a $30/yr domain though it is a one time expense per year.

Kind of interested with those odd domains like .us was $3.00 before, but I think that's a promotional first time buyer thing.

Maybe the VPS argument doesn't make sense, almost $60/yr I think it was $40 something that bulk-buy discount sort of thing.