HACKER Q&A
📣 flyGuyOnTheSly

What chance is there of a TLD raising prices significantly?


I am looking to purchase some .yoga tld domains, and I am nervous about building a business on a domain tld that has dynamic pricing.

Most every .yoga domain on namesilo costs $23.99 USD/year... but some of them like natural.yoga cost $5,000+/year

Is there anything in the ICANN contract preventing whoever owns the .yoga tld from saying "hey I think I want to increase flyGuyOnTheSly.yoga from $23.99/year to $10,000/year renewal fee because that is a popular domain"???

Essentially rent seeking on my hard work that made a "worthless domain" in their eyes "now popular"?

Thank you


  👤 nicksantamaria Accepted Answer ✓
I asked donuts (gTLD owner of .family) whether my domain renewal could be reduced (from $385 per year to something more reasonable for a genealogy hobby). This was their response.

Maybe it’s not worth reading too much into the “we can’t change the renewal cost” line.

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Hi Nick,

Unfortunately, we can't change the renewal cost for santamaria.family

If we ever start to change renewals, I will be sure to reach out to help.

Sorry about that.

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Domain Consultant, Donuts Inc.