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That's why I only own .com domains. net and org are probably fine too. You're free to move the domain you own to a different registrar at any time (I'm all on cloudflare now which has no markup, it's great).

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Google runs the .dev gTLD but isn’t the only registrar. Google lists the many other .dev registrars here: https://www.registry.google/register-a-domain/

Presumably you can freely move your .dev domains between those registrars?

So if you register a .dev with say Gandi, will Google be able to pull these shenanigans on you, or do they have to honour the standard renewal price?

Yes, they can pull the shenanigans.

Registries (like Google for .dev, Verisign for .com/.net) set the pricing for domains under their TLDs. Registrars like Gandi add just a very slim markup.

If I'm reading the Gandi cart right to renew "fly.dev", yes they can pull these shenanigans. It's showing $780 to renew. I can't tell if that's one year or not.

Presumably fly will be keeping `fly.dev` around? Perhaps you're in a good place to make a fuss about this given your commercial usage of a "cool" .dev domain.

How much is Gandi’s markup? I’d bet it’s the same couple of dollars they charge for regular domains. I suspect Google is pocketing 99% of that price hike.

I have some .dev with namecheap, and it's showing me $16.98 to add a new year for all of the ones I have, and I can go up to 9 years (only 8 for one of them interestingly), so I don't think this is all .dev domains, likely just premium ones.

I agree that the custom TLDs should be used with care (a lot are owned by single registrars, such as name.com owning a TON of them) but some ccTLDs can also be trusted, as well as .eu . I'd say .org is technically the most trustworthy until isoc try to pull that shit where they try to sell it to a private equity firm again.

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