Why is there such big price discrepency on certain TLDs?

I'm not just talking about the same register, but even different registers; in one company it might charge $5 for domain name with a certain TLD, and then another company can charge $25 for the same one. What is their reasoning behind their prices?

 

It's very possible they have more than one domain web site and market the same product at different prices on each one. It's a common marketing trick. Some people will choose the first site they find and buy. Others will look for the best price. Not everyone has time/desire to search for better pricing.

David

 

I answered this before, but it boils down to two words: business models. Few
charge high but offer a toll-free phone number (which can be useful for those
not tech savvy or so), while others charge low but only have email support.

 

Larger companies like Godaddy can charge cheaper prices because of the volume of transactions while others that are smaller or want to make more profit, charge more

 

And then from time to time you will get the companies that just put a price out there and see if a poor soul will not know any better and pay through the nose for something, i read a thread here recently i think where someone found a site with domains reg fee at $xxx.

 

They became big by charging a lower price versus companies like Register.com and Network Solutions.

 

The reasoning is to make more money. What else?

 

It's not just one site cheaper than another...it's like one site might have very expensive .tv and cheap .com
The prices just seem very arbitrary.

 

Ive just recently begun in the domain world and I already noticed a huge difference in Customer Service between a few companies. To me it almost justifies the extra charge from a certain site...maybe I was just lucky to get a good rep on the phone though Im not sure.

 

As another example, .info usually is quite cheap

 

.info is not a popular TLD and their prices have been lowered temporarily to gain support for its usage. However the discounted price is only valid for the first year, they are willing to accept a loss. This is just a way to entice people to sign up and when they use the domain name for a year, they will most likely be trapped to renew the domain name for the subsequent years and so the registrar can recover its cost for the first and subsequent years.