@Holocryptic - can you clarify that a little? (I'll admit I haven't used any meta very much.)

My question is very applicable; if GoDaddy set the price arbitrarily high, I would want to use another registrar. I guessed this wasn't the case, but didn't know who else would have set it. The explanation I saw on GoDaddy was that premium domains were domains "more valuable because they are based on common words and phrases," which made me wonder if the third-party owner they referred to was the owner of the TLD, not the domain itself.

But there IS a right answer to "who sets the price," which is apparently "the owner" even if it isn't expressly stated by the registrar that it's owned by someone already.