[justsomehnguy]

> If the cost to charge it went up by 10x I would still be displeased though.

Sure anyone would be, but... maybe don't choose .furniture[0] as the TLD for your own small private LAN DNS and don't have the unpleasant surprises?

The prices for the registrations (and renew) are going up steadily (just like everything else? inflation is a thing), but there is always an option to get the information about the renewal price upfront and maybe even use the multi-year sale.

Just looked in Dynadot's CSV, there are ~100 TLDs with sub $10 renewals and additional ~100 with < $15.

Also dug my records[1], privacy is baked in now, so the total effective rise is $1 for `.one` and... -$2 for `.com`.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40571805

[1]

    date created: 2015/08/20
    <placeholder>.com - domain renewal
    1 year ($10.99)
    <placeholder>.com - domain privacy
    1 year ($3.00)
    PAYMENT
    final cost:   $13.99

    date created: 2016/07/21
    <placeholder>.one - domain renewal
    1 year ($10.99)
    <placeholder>.one - domain privacy
    1 year ($3.00)
    PAYMENT
    final cost:   $13.99

    Date created: 2023/09/08
    <placeholder>.com - Domain Renewal
    1 year ($11.99) $11.99

    Date created: 2023/10/16
    <placeholder>.one - Domain Renewal
    1 year ($14.99) $14.99

[FinnKuhn]

While I personally would stick to reputable TLDs for anything you want to keep I still think that a 10x price increase on any TLD is super sketchy, especially when it isn't communicated up-front to buyers. My comment was just about those super high rises that to me feel like they are exploiting people who can't easily switch. It was not intended to be about slight price adjustments to match inflation, rising operating costs and the like.