Why is ENS gas higher than quoted?

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Why is ENS gas higher than quoted?

Why is ENS gas higher than quoted?

Trying to buy an 11 character ENS, with gas originally quoted as ~$100 total on the ENS site. On step 3 of the transaction now and Metamask is saying gas is over $5k. Any ideas? Does gas scale that much with character count? The domain itself is only $5/year

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