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If you transferred to a different registrar do they have to follow Google's pricing structure for existing domains? Would that not be price fixing?

Google owns those TLDs. they have no incentive or even any reason to allow anyone else to co-manage those TLDs.

edit: as seen below, I'm wrong

Other registrars offer .dev domains. Whether or not Google fixes the prices on all of them I don't know.

Prices are fixed at the registrar level. I own a .dev domain and it's $200/yr even if I transfer it to Namecheap.

I own several non-premium .dev domains with namecheap, and with namecheap they're $16.98 per year to add new years.

Right now I just looked at the transfer cost and they want $205 USD... so yeah.