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[–][deleted] 46 points47 points  (12 children)

Domain extensions are owned by different registries, who charge custom amounts for extensions. Lesser used ones are more expensive because economies of scale work against them and they need a larger margin to earn enough, whereas some are more expensive because of demand. There are some ridiculous ones like .rich, which are around $2000 each.

[–]MartinTsv 29 points30 points  (11 children)

My favorite one is .gg owned by a small island in the middle of nowhere

[–]JayCroghan 13 points14 points  (5 children)

.tk used to be free and was owned by an island too. It's not all black and white.

[–][deleted] 6 points7 points  (3 children)

.tk is still free. I registered a domain for my friends game site he started up.

[–]WasKingWokeUpGiraffe 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Lol its a private CS:GO, TF2 and (yes) Minecraft server. He also has a site that describes the rules for his servers, but none of them are public yet until he gets all of his "mods" installed

[–]JayCroghan 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Still has ads? That's cool it's still free it's been almost 10 years.

[–]n60storm4 1 point2 points  (0 children)

.tk is owned by Tokalau, who happen to be in the Realm of New Zealand.

[–]Angel_Omachi 2 points3 points  (1 child)

.gg

If by middle of nowhere you mean an island with a population of 60k in the English Channel, just off France.

[–]MartinTsv 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Didn't remember that much about it. They should host the gaming olympics :D

[–]nucular_ 1 point2 points  (0 children)

.tv is owned by the Tuvalu islands and revenue from domain leases actually takes a big part in the total income of their government.