[chrismorgan]

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.

[gbrayut]

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

[jagger27]

That’s a great pickup.

[jagger27]

Naturally when I got the idea I checked this domain first. It’s probably for the best that they price them this way, at least for short domains.

I think it’s a considerably shittier to charge a premium for <6-letter-dictionary-word>.dev however.