.com, .org have legacy contracts eliminating the shenanigans they can pull. .org did try get out of restrictions on hiking the price on renewals, but weren’t successful. So all my domains are either .com, .org or the TLD for the country where I live (of course, how trustworthy your local ccTLD is varies)

It's not exactly the same, but a lot of owners of weird TLDs have got hit with insane renewal fees,.hosting went from $20/y to $300/y overnight.

Also, some TLDs directly speculate on having very low prices for the first year or two, then 10x it on year 2 or 3.

I would love a list of Radix TLDs or registrars who do this Safe Browsing ban with no appeal.

Also, go figure Namecheap works with these morons.

The ones used by freenom were particularly abused:

https://prezkennedy.com/2026/01/15/the-free-domain-trap-the-...

> Freenom’s terms of service allowed them to “cancel” a free domain at any time without warning. Users reported for years that as soon as their free site started getting significant traffic (and becoming valuable), Freenom would reclaim the domain and fill it with ads, effectively hijacking the user’s hard work.

Some of these TLD also get thrown under weird arbitrary blacklists by security vendors.

Sorry, can’t buy a frame.work laptop because that’s a “Malicious TLD”, according to the folks at ZScaler.