Porkbun has .party for $21.09 (bar the first year promotion, not sure about VAT) and INWX (DE, VAT included) has it 32.80€ . It is definitely more but not as scary as you made it sound.
Huh, thats weird. I am from Norway, and I have always used domainname.shop, a Norwegian service. .party seems to be at around 7.49€ a year (bar the first year promotion)
It is not a super fancy website, and the company is pretty old, but I don't really need a lot from my DNS provider anyways.
It’s not all bad. I hope you don’t mind tooting my own horn. But there are providers who try to keep prices reasonable: https://domain.chief.app/pricing (disclaimer: this is mine)
I must say though that this (at this stage) is mostly only possible because a few (also Dutch) reseller titans that allow me to be affordable.
The cost of entry as registrar into ICANN TLDs is pretty high
I'm on INWX but trying to get out, as pricing is quite expensive for regular TLDs. A .com domain goes for about €18 with taxes and all that stuff.
And the situation for autorenewal is terrible. At least when using their Spanish site (inwx.es) they cannot do autorenewal billed directly to your credit card or Paypal account, you have to previously add credit to your account "balance" and leave it hanging there until your next renewal.
Somebody mentioned openprovider.com and I'm taking a look because it looks interesting.
Nurw|6 days ago
It is not a super fancy website, and the company is pretty old, but I don't really need a lot from my DNS provider anyways.
stayallive|9 days ago
I must say though that this (at this stage) is mostly only possible because a few (also Dutch) reseller titans that allow me to be affordable.
The cost of entry as registrar into ICANN TLDs is pretty high
willy__|9 days ago
tecleandor|9 days ago
And the situation for autorenewal is terrible. At least when using their Spanish site (inwx.es) they cannot do autorenewal billed directly to your credit card or Paypal account, you have to previously add credit to your account "balance" and leave it hanging there until your next renewal.
Somebody mentioned openprovider.com and I'm taking a look because it looks interesting.