To give people a bit of insight into the domain registry industry, when a registrar increase domain prices there are generally four reason why they do it.

1) The registrar want to increase its margins.

2) The registry upstream increased their price. For .com, Verisign agreement with ICANN allow Verisign to increase the price by 7% in each of the final four years of every six-year cycle. As such they increased it in 2024 and will do so again on November 1, 2026.

3) The registrar is not a direct registrar and uses a middle man, and the middle man want to increase its margins.

4) The buyer or the registrar is operating on a different currency than the registry, and the registrar is compensating for changes in the currency valuation.

Thanks for explaining how markets work. Not really a response to the OPs complaint.