What was their justification for this?
Seems to me this is an automated process to guarantee some profit margin for them. Not saying this is correct, though.
It's very simple, I live in Russia and they want to discriminate in such a way so that I leave them. But now I don't have any free money for the transfer, so I'm selling all the domains.
I think they are acting in an ugly way. But the internet remembers everything. Let's see if anyone wants to use their services when they are discriminating.