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What? At least in the U.S., if you sell something with a lifetime ownership term, you can't just renege and change the terms after the fact (well you can try, but you're asking to be sued).
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I'm from Romania, and my firstname.ro was available late last year, but someone else bought it...I don't have a problem with that...I was willing to pay 50 euros, since it's a common name, I assume it went for a lot more. I don't understand why it would be 500 euros/year. Once you bought it, it's yours, you can renew it for 9/year.
I got firstname.be a while back, and I did pay more for it than 50 euros. Guess it depends on how much you want it -- I'd been waiting nearly 16 years until the domain finally expired. Didn't really feel like waiting another 16 years... :)
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Do you ask for real or just troll? It is unfair because, because the domain costs 6€ if you’re the middleman and 300€ otherwise. I guess €3000 is not a super high entry barrier, but probably there is some red tape as well.
you see the value of a good, buy it and then resell it at a better price so you can make a profit. this is free market 101 as far as I'm concerned...
> Because that’s not quite sustainable (hindsight is 20/20), they decided to switch all the domains they already sold for life to yearly subscriptions. What? At least in the U.S., if you sell something with a lifetime ownership term, you can't just renege and change the terms after the fact (well you can try, but you're asking to be sued).
https://web.archive.org/web/20160401102809/http://rotld.ro/p...
> If you want a really good domain, you can end up paying 500EUR per year for it. Can't you transfer it to a different reseller in the first year? You should be able to switch resellers with your domain. In worst case, you can start your own reseller.
I'm from Romania, and my firstname.ro was available late last year, but someone else bought it...I don't have a problem with that...I was willing to pay 50 euros, since it's a common name, I assume it went for a lot more. I don't understand why it would be 500 euros/year. Once you bought it, it's yours, you can renew it for 9/year.
> If you want a really good domain, you can end up paying 500EUR per year for it. Can't you transfer it to a different reseller in the first year? You should be able to switch resellers with your domain. In worst case, you can start your own reseller.
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It's a private entity that reaps the benefits of what is a public good presumably...
it's not private until it have an owner. or are you normalizing the criminal behavior of godaddy where registrars can rush and buy the domain while you're doing the check out process just to sell back to you for more?
Also, presumably the additional cost on the .ro ccTLD from the bots hammering the servers is burdening the Romanian citizen, and the benefits are going to the offending registrars...
Registrars that run drop catch auction sites increase their odds by acquiring more connections to the Registry.
3,000 EUR to potentially get access to a ton of good domains doesn't seem like a big deal? If I knew I could register 100 interesting domains, I would totally be willing to pay that price.
3000 total sounds super duper cheap.