When people said " Print is dead"  newspapers and magazines did not increase ad placement price hence being detrimental to their own existence. 

With the advent apps, domains in general became less attractive, increasing domain registration price could make  potential domain buyers to shy away and come up with apps with good recall value without necessarily owning a domain .

It is a fact that .com has a place of its own but why kill hen that laid the eggs.

Thanks,

Charlie M.