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I have not been following the newer tlds (or registering many of them except .best) and not aware their renewal pricing methods could allow standard non-premium (wholesale?) names to be renewed by some registrars at old high prices not the current lower and standard pricing. I did not know it was happening until now. Is it widespread?
Does that also occur on other newer tlds or just ,best? I don't want to do business with a registrar who would refuse to renew at the current cost and instead demand an old higher price on non-premium names. Clearly the old $70 to $83 .best prices were not marketed as being premiums before.
When I purchased one name at Godaddy early Feb 2019 all .best were $83 standard prices including made up worthless names I checked as a test at the time. Sorry Cyril, I fail to understand the logic that these names are now said to be premium and do not qualify for new $17-$18 renewals.
Thanks for your feedback.
Once again : please, don't mix-up the status of a domain with the pricing of a domain.
A premium domain can even have a lower price that a standard domain.
FYI, all registries have the rights (according to their RRA with registrars) to modify or update their premium price list.
What happened to the .Best (even if almost all ngtlds had also already changed many times their premium list) is that we had the legacy of domains that was registered before our acquisition or price change notification to registrars in Feb 2019 and that need to respect also our RRA with registrars.
We NEVER increase the price of a registered domain for a registrant but neither want to decrease the price of a registered domain for a registrar without our prior notification.
This is why the compromise date in our transition pricing process to a lower .Best pricing was taken at the date of notification to our registrars.
But once again also, I can totally understand some frustration for "old registrants" but we had to find a fair date between registrars and registrants.
Regarding your own case and the case of "old-registrants", and as you mention, all domains that you bought before Feb 2019, you bought them and registered them at $83, and most important, you know also that you will have to renew them at $83 the next year and the years after !
Exactly like all other registrants that are actually renewing their "old" .Best domains.
Also, as I mention, if we were really unfair, we could even legally decide to choose the date of our effective price change (5th August 2019) as the new date for lowering our price on renewals but as we had notified registrars 6 months before (5th Feb 2019) and as a gesture of goodwill for our registrants, (99% of our .Best registrants were even not aware about this coming price change) I was thinking that the fair date had to be 5th Feb 2019.
I know that the situation is not perfect for a couple of registrants and this is why I am here to help you and other registrants that have registered .Best domains before 5th Feb 2019 get a discount on renewals with your preferred registrar on a one to one basis.
Globally, I don't want to minimize here the situation but only a few registrants are concerned by this situation and most of them already renew their domains in the long term (even before our price change notification). FYI, the .Best registry had a renewal rate up to 90% on the last 3 months.
So I am sure that I can assist you and older registrants to get a discount renewal price on old-registered domains with a registrar.
My email is :
[email protected] - don't hesitate if you have problem or need any assistance on renewal with your .Best domains.
All the .Best
CF