No Anti-Flipping MandateThe Indian .in registry explicitly retains the right to cancel or block a domain if they believe it was registered solely for "cyber-squatting" or park-and-flip profit without a legitimate business intent. In contrast, the official NIC.md rules state that once a domain fee is paid, it enters the exclusive use of the registrant.
Premium .md names are openly and legally sold on the secondary market (e.g., single-letter .md domains have sold for thousands of dollars) without registry intervention.The Real Catch: How the Registry Actually Discourages FlippingInstead of policing your intent to sell like .in,
the Moldovan registry discourages massive portfolio flipping through financial and administrative friction:
Prohibitive Renewal Costs: The .md registry purposely sets standard wholesale pricing very high (usually $100+ per year). This baseline cost makes hoarding or "parking" hundreds of .md domains to wait for a buyer incredibly expensive and risky compared to cheap TLDs.
Paper-Heavy Transfer Process: Many standard registries let you push a domain to a new owner with a simple digital authorization code.
The .md registry often requires a manual, paper-based administrative process where both the "losing registrant" and "gaining registrant" must fill out and sign official documents to approve the transfer.
