"Domain broker" from reg.ru without a catch?

Question

Domain name market

Hello. Need a domain. Initially, they were waiting for the release date (it was March 19, 2014). Now the domain has been extended until 2015.03.19.
On the site for the last half a year there has been a stub "Construction work is underway at the site!" and banners reg.ru.
Screenshot:
Whois is like this:
nserver: ns1.reg.ru.
server: ns2.reg.ru.
state: REGISTERED, DELEGATED, VERIFIED
person: Private Person
registrar: REGRU-REG-RIPN
admin-contact: www.reg.ru/whois/admin_contact
created: 2010.02.16
paid-till: 2015.02.16
free-date: 2015.03.19
source: TCI
All of this makes me feel like this is a weird scam from the registrar to raise the price of the domain. Is it so? There are options to do without a "domain broker"?

Answer 1

And why don't you think that this domain belongs to some person, for example, a cybersquatter, who extended it at the time.
DNSs are registered standard from Reg.ru, which they provide for free.

Answer 2

To get started, write a request to the domain administrator through the whois form www.reg.ru/whois/admin_contact.
A domain broker from Reg.ru says it loudly, it's just that Reg.ru employees send a request to the owner for you with a question about the price and this does not affect the price in any way.
There is another move, in the request, write that you represent a client who is interested in this domain, immediately determine the budget up to which you are ready to bargain and try to buy at a price that is acceptable to you.