Re my post above, I see that
as of this morning the prices for all FFM extensions (trade, review, party, bid, win, science, webcam etc.) are no longer discounted at Namecheap. They are now $12.88 vs previous discounting to sub dollar there for the past long while.
As of this moment NameSilo still have great price listed, but my understanding of Kevin's post (linked in my earlier post) is that deep discounts are gone forever. I think in long run this will be good, although the rebound in registrations over the past 10 months will no doubt stall. Anyway if want to register or renew some .science at cheap prices, rush to NameSilo or a few other places as I think they all end very soon.
Here is a nTLD graph of the registration climb last 10 months or so:
ps Fortunately I did add some 5 year renewals on a few names I really like in .science prior to the price increase.
pps Kevin's post indicates that the registry says they will be reserving fewer in the extensions as premium, so some good names may come out at the no longer discounted price I have not yet seem any evidence of this in .science as still a lot of the good names seem at $650 premium price.