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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.