[LaCiteDesAnges]

> What's stopping a gTLD owner, .foo to get a bunch of customers onboard with $1.99/year deal and then 5 years later, increase that to $49.99/year?

Bad image and massively losing the original customers.

>Any laws preventing this?

No, the gTLDs are allocated by ICANN which is a non-profit based in the US. As a whole, the domain name market follows very economically liberal rules.

[zzanak]

What exactly do you mean by liberal rules? Is lobbying part of that?

I just remember that ICANN board was part of a recent .org story [1].

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23878508

[LaCiteDesAnges]

I meant "economically liberal" as in "governed by capital, companies and other entities (such as reselling platform) that follow market dynamics rather than state rules", in the european sense.