Risk of price hikes in future?

Don't want to build site on domain if price may rise.

[beren]

All my sites are on .org or .com I am not a "domainer" investor.

Earlier this year I put up a new site on a .red. Registering the .red was cheap (<$10) I am thinking of putting a new site on a recently released tld - not a traditional .tld.

My question is: do I run a risk of big price hikes in these newly minted tlds in the future. Are some of them private/sponsored by one company who can later hike the price? With .com and .org I know that is not the case and although prices may rise, they won't be excessive.

With the new tlds I don't know. Some are cheap now but I am afraid of establishing a website on a domain that may rise in price in the future. (And no, the quality of these domains I am looking at is not so high that I am willing tp pay much for them. No branding is intended.)

[RedBar]

Some are cheap now but I am afraid of establishing a website on a domain that may rise in price in the future.

My immediate thought on this is that if they were to hike the price that much you felt you had to move, then all I would do is get a new domain, upload the new site and 301 the old site to it.

It takes Google and Bing 2-4 weeks usually to get everything moved over. I've done this several times, only last month with one site, within days the new site was being shown in the results and after a month everything was showing under the new name.

Note: The sites were identical except for the domain name, absolutely no changes were made to the site.

[topr8]

>>upload the new site and 301 the old site to it.

i appreciate google would pick up the new site but all the incoming links (if any) would be lost, unless the 301 was ever present - which would make the move mute.

[LifeinAsia]

If you're that worried, why not extend the registration for 10 years (or whatever the max. registration term is)?

[RedBar]

but all the incoming links (if any) would be lost,

Eventually, true, however I've never been one to chase after links, ever, and since no branding is sought what difference would it make?

[engine]

The problem here is that nobody really knows for sure.
Good suggestion, LifeinAsia, and if you're serious about the business, go for it.

[accurate]

Yes, new domain registries can raise prices. They can raise prices whenever they want and how much they want. One company just double prices on many of it's TLDs.

There is no price cap on how new domain registries can raise prices or when. ICANN has done a terrible job of protecting consumers/registrants.

Stick with .COM and .ORG domains @beren. :)