Critical support to the nation of Kiribati for gouging techbros who want to squat on their digital domain space, I suppose, but I deserve something affordable, dammit!

I think it's good policy that they charge local residents considerably less, but $200 is still way too much.

I wonder if it's possible to get WHOIS privacy for a .ki TLD. Maybe that would be a bad idea (because it's so high value).

Edit: A $1000 one-time fee would be somewhat understandable but $1000/yr is outrageous. No wonder they have so many single letter domain names available.