Sudden price hike for registering?

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Purchasing a few 5-9 word domains the past two days with an average price of $45-$55 and suddenly the price is up to $200?
To compare, I looked up a domain that I looked for yesterday that was available and it was $48 and the same one is now $200 so it doesn’t have to do with the characters it seems.

Does anyone have an idea why the price would change like that?

FYI I’m new to ens, thanks!

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Perhaps gas happened to spike up when you looked? Here’s what I see:

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Huh… its even more expensive now upwards of 280, and this is a 7 letter word

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The one year price shouldn’t be 0.059. are you on the correct website? https://app.ens.domains/

Also the price is heavily influenced by the gas, which in your UI 164 gwei.

Use Ethereum (ETH) Mainnet - GasNow - etherchain.org - 2022 to see how gas price has been evolving

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Hey thanks for the reply!

It went back down and I snagged it for $38 but yes, I was looking at another gas calculator and it was showing like $50-$60 gas at the time, but I still couldn’t see how it was $200-$280!?

Nonetheless it went back down, I guess that’s just how it goes and I’ll know to just wait it out next time.

Thanks everyone.

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Unless there is some urgency, one way to pay less in gas is by using “custom”.