Policy Alignment
- Uses ICANN-style principles for registration agreements, abuse mitigation, RDAP publication, accuracy, lifecycle controls, and dispute handling where appropriate for a policy-driven domain registry.
- Preserves upstream country-code registry authority for AFNIC-family labels in .pm, .wf, and .yt and Greece-family labels in .gr.
- Requires qualified legal review before production publication in jurisdictions where UDR, registrars, or registrants operate.
01 Scope
This policy explains how UDR prices standard registrations, renewals, transfers, restorations, premium labels, reserved-label releases, registrar program services, and special registry services. Retail prices may be set by registrar partners, but registry fees and premium status are controlled by UDR unless a written addendum says otherwise.
02 Price Types
UDR may maintain multiple price categories to support a sustainable private registry and transparent registrar channel.
- Standard price: the default registry fee for a non-premium, available label in a supported extension.
- Premium price: a higher one-time or recurring price for a label with commercial, semantic, short, category, keyword, geographic, institutional, or brand value.
- Partner price: a wholesale, promotional, volume, or contractual price offered to approved registrars.
- Special service price: fees for restoration, manual review, data correction, dispute processing, reserved-name review, bulk operations, API support, or extraordinary registry work.
03 Quotes, Availability, and Errors
Availability checks, WHOIS/RDAP lookups, public price pages, registrar feeds, and API responses are informational until UDR confirms acceptance. UDR may correct obvious errors, stale quotes, data-sync problems, exchange-rate errors, tax miscalculations, or premium classification errors before activation.
- A quote should disclose whether a label is standard, premium, reserved, unavailable, or manual-review.
- If UDR accepts an order at an incorrect price because of registry error, UDR may cancel the order, offer the correct price, or honor the price at its discretion where lawful.
- Registrar partners must pass through required premium, renewal, and restoration disclosures before collecting payment.
04 Renewal Pricing and Notice
Renewal pricing may differ from initial registration pricing. Premium labels may renew at standard or premium renewal rates depending on the applicable price schedule shown at registration, registrar disclosure, or written agreement.
- UDR aims to give reasonable notice of material registry-fee changes through the website, registrar feeds, direct registrar notice, or admin configuration.
- Expired labels may require renewal, redemption, restoration, or manual recovery fees.
- Failure to renew, failed payment, fraud screening, or unresolved policy breach may result in hold or deletion.
05 Taxes, Currency, and Payment
Displayed prices may exclude taxes, payment processor charges, foreign-exchange fees, bank fees, and registrar retail markups unless expressly stated. UDR may invoice in supported currencies and may convert prices using commercially reasonable exchange rates.
06 Refunds, Reversals, and Chargebacks
Registry fees are generally non-refundable after acceptance because UDR reserves and operates the label. UDR may approve refunds for duplicate billing, registry error, pre-activation cancellation, or other cases stated in a registrar addendum or required by law.
- Chargebacks, payment reversals, fraud, or unpaid invoices may trigger hold, suspension, deletion, account restriction, or registrar settlement action.
- Policy enforcement, dispute locks, abuse holds, upstream instructions, or registrant breach do not automatically create refund rights.
07 Price Changes and Publication
UDR may change prices, create or retire promotions, classify or declassify premium labels, reserve labels, release reserved labels, or adjust partner tiers. UDR will publish or communicate changes in a commercially reasonable way, with more urgent changes allowed for security, legal, upstream, fraud, or operational needs.