By that logic, I can just check an available name in an obscure TLD and if it's premium, that's also going to be premium, right?
Also, there are different prices for premium names.
I. THE PAST
1/In the past the word "premium domain" meant a domain with high quality.
2/Sometimes it however it simply meant "a domain that is for sale by a certain sellingsystem", and is "called premium, suggesting it's a qualitydomain.
If you look at Dynadot for a certain domain. It will show available, and you will see the word "premium" before it, then you know this is a domain that is being sold by a person through this sellsystem. The renewalrate will be the normal renewalrate."
3/(1 Exception : .TV used in the past also the word "premium" domains like now some new registries do with NGTLD's.)
II. Since the new TLD's came, 5 years ago, a lot changed.
Suddenly several registries of domains in these extensions marked a domainname as "premium", and asked a higher price to register a specific domain (mostly a popular one), AND for those,
also the renewalcost is the same higher 'premium'-price.
AND this is not all : Some registries mark a domainname as "premium" and ask a higher price then their usual domainprice to register,
BUT to renew the domain, you only have to pay the usual renewalfee (so much lower then the premiumprice they asked to register) for their extensiondomains.
III. NOW : THIS practice MADE/MAKES EVERYTHING -or "a lot" MUCH MORE DIFFICULT.
Suddenly the name "premium domain" means something different then in the past, or better : it can mean several things or more several things then in the past.
To resolve the confusion now some registrars (I think Dynadot, Name.com, Namecheap Porkbun; and some others) do the folllowing =>
The "premium domains" -like in the past- keep existing. So people want to sell via a sellsystem (via Afternic, Sedo a.o. I don't use the system for the moment), and their name in a search comes as "premium" at Dynadotsearch or other search (you pay premium price to buy, and after a year or sooner you can renew at normal price). You actually see the word "premium" in the result.
And mostly (at the registrars I mentioned) you see "renews at .....". with a much lower amount to renew.
NOW : A SOLUTION FOR THE PROBLEM, about the word "PREMIUM" BY NEW REGISTRIES is that you put a word before the word "premium" => For domains that cost more to register then their normal registerfee, it is better to use
the word "REGISTRY PREMIUM" DOMAINS instead of "PREMIUM" DOMAINS.
In that case you know it is the registry that sells the domain via the registrar(s) to the registrants (= we/us).
Depending from registry to registry (or extention to extention) the RENEWALFEE for registry premium domains is the same as the high registry premium REGISTEREFEE
OR (for instance .co)
the fee to register registry premium domains is a bit or more higher, but the renewalfee is the normal registrationfee.
WHAT ARE THE PROBLEMS COMING OUT OF THIS ?
1/One of the problems is that
not all registrars publish in the results that it's registry premium, or don't show the full registrypremiumfee in the result, and the lower (or NOT LOWER) renewalfee.
2/Another problem is that the registries of new extentions doesn't call these domains "registry premium'-domains, but simply "premium domains".
THIS MAKES IT VERY CONFUSING .
3/In the whois it isn't mentioned if a domain is a registry premiumdomain. And ICANN didn't make a regulation (as far as I know) that forces registries to mention that in the whoisresults.
So if you want to buy a domain from another domainer or see a domain in an auction, you DON'T KNOW if the RENEWALFEE will be a normal renewalfee for that extention, or a high price because it's a registrypremium renewal fee.
You can try the trick I mentioned in my earlier post at Dynadot if you want to buy a name and see what price the renewal will be.(what's usual the same price as the transferprice).
At some other registrars this trick will succeed also, so then you know it's a premium, because of the high price to transfer .
But sometimes you simply have to reach to the the registrar where the domain is registerred now (by phone and email) to ask.
And to be 100% sure, you can try to ask to the registry of that extention.
Most old extentions use the old method for nearly all their domains. But that's not aalways the case.
And we don't know what the future brings. Suddenly a registry of a certain extention can announce that they change something, and make domains that were in the past non-registry premium, suddenly registry premiums. This will usually only happen after the domain -if already registerred- has dropped.
Of course this is important to know also, certainly if you backorder a domain (!!!).
4/ There's a lot more to be said
1/for instance : registry premiums can differ 10 USD or even 50 USD depending on the registrar you use).
2/and also : BE VERY CAUTIOUS WITH REGISTRARS WHO DON'T MENTION if it is a registry premium domain. IT CAN BE THAT THEY PUT THE NORMAL PRICE, BUT IF YOU GO TO CHECKOUT SUDDENLY A PREMIUM FEE IS ADDED.
So BE VERY CAREFULL WITH SUCH REGISTRARS. And don't click too quick or don't take an automatic payment of everything you click and put in your box, without you seeing the price of that box, or your creditcard is charged a premium registration.
3/and also : Do know that some registrars like Dynadot, Godaddy a.o. have for several extentions a possibility that if you buy a domainname (register), you have 4 days or at most 5 days to "GRACE DELETE" the domain : then you get you money back and the domain comes available again. However there are limits at Dynadot for certain extentions, or you have to pay 1 or 2 $ per domain you grace delete, and some registrars (I should check to know how it is at Dynadot) that do grace delete but not for premium or registry premium domains.
And there are only SOME registrars who give grace deletion after registration, and those that do don't do that for all extentions.
So be very careful !! And : Come now and then certainly to this forum, because there are people that warn you here for certain things that change or have happened.
The last word is certainly not said in this matter.
Ciao, and have good festivities.
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