I was curious about tab.vs.space, and find vs.space is unregistered and a premium domain; pricing is high and seems peculiarly inconsistent. Here are the USD prices various registrars list:
• get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew.
• Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal.
• GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to register (marked down from $6,500) and $6,500 to renew.
• Google Domains says it’s $5,400 per year. (But until I explicitly asked for USD it was telling me NZD6250, which is about USD4400, a rather significant difference.)
A couple of other registrars that I tried didn’t cope with vs.space because they seem to think it’s invalid and a third character is required: hover.com just shows search results with no message to explain why it ignored the exact match vs.space, and 101domain.com tells you it’s too short to be valid.
Many TLDs don't count (letter dash letter) as a premium/reserved domain like they do for other dictionary words or 2-3 character domains. Looks like v-s.space is claimed but for example z-s was just $9.99 a year
I used that trick when .dev was launched and snagged a-z.dev for all my future domain name needs
• get.space says it’s $5,000 (actually NZD7,102.40 and I can’t find a currency switch) to register, and the same to renew.
• Namecheap says it’s $3,250 to register, and makes no comment on renewal.
• GoDaddy says it’s $3,300 to register (marked down from $6,500) and $6,500 to renew.
• Google Domains says it’s $5,400 per year. (But until I explicitly asked for USD it was telling me NZD6250, which is about USD4400, a rather significant difference.)
A couple of other registrars that I tried didn’t cope with vs.space because they seem to think it’s invalid and a third character is required: hover.com just shows search results with no message to explain why it ignored the exact match vs.space, and 101domain.com tells you it’s too short to be valid.