I bought mine for about 100$ for 10 years which is about 10$ a year. If it went 10x times the price, then it would be $1000 that I would owe when it comes time to renew
People, do personal blogs belong on .com? Typically not a commercial endeavour, unless you are consultants, and even then... They much better belong under a country tld, or at worst, .blog, .perso or .me (Montenegro, but itβs about me).
Has anyone REALLY followed the naming convention in the past 30 years? Nobody is going to visit your blog if it ends in .blog. People expect .com or at the most radical, .net. Raising prices x10 ain't the answer. All it does is make it harder for the little guy to get a not-spammy sounding website up and running.
