<story><title>Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850</title><url>https://twitter.com/emirkarsiyakali/status/1601373440979525632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emir</author><text>As you know, domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google. Last year, I bought the &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.dev&lt;/a&gt; domain for one of our projects. When I tried to renew it this year, I was faced with a renewal price of $850 instead of the normal price of $12.&lt;p&gt;Since I looked at it in Turkish Lira, I thought at first that Google made a mistake when converting the currency, but it turns out that was not the case. Apparently, they are renewing generic domains like the one I own for $850 under the name Premium domain.&lt;p&gt;I could understand if I were to buy this domain from scratch, but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before. Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>CydeWeys</author><text>Hi. I work on Google Registry.  forum.dev is and always has been a premium domain name (and you paid that same premium price at initial registration). We price some domain names higher than others to help prevent cybersquatting, so that desirable domain names remain available for legitimate registrants rather than being sold for extravagant sums on the after-market.  We have &lt;i&gt;never&lt;/i&gt; increased the price of a single domain name after registration in our entire decade of existence.&lt;p&gt;For another example of a premium domain name that is still available for registration (in case people here want to verify the user experience), perform a domain name search for money.dev at your registrar of choice. It will be clearly marked with its yearly premium price.  You would have seen this same information when you initially registered forum.dev.</text></comment>
<story><title>Premium .dev domain with Google costs $850</title><url>https://twitter.com/emirkarsiyakali/status/1601373440979525632</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>emir</author><text>As you know, domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google. Last year, I bought the &lt;a href=&quot;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.dev&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;forum.dev&lt;/a&gt; domain for one of our projects. When I tried to renew it this year, I was faced with a renewal price of $850 instead of the normal price of $12.&lt;p&gt;Since I looked at it in Turkish Lira, I thought at first that Google made a mistake when converting the currency, but it turns out that was not the case. Apparently, they are renewing generic domains like the one I own for $850 under the name Premium domain.&lt;p&gt;I could understand if I were to buy this domain from scratch, but I have been the owner of hundreds of domains for almost 20 years and I have never faced anything like this before. Once again, I realized that it is foolish to trust Google on any matter. Thank you, Google.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>cubesnooper</author><text>This is why I always purchase my domains for ten years up front, and top it up to ten again each year after.&lt;p&gt;This way if the renewal fee increases beyond what I’m willing to pay after I’ve already got infrastructure running on the domain, I have a whole decade to migrate to a better (cheaper) name.&lt;p&gt;$120 is a larger investment than $12 which means I buy fewer domains overall, but the stability benefits are worth it for me.</text></comment>