equidistantWhitfieldJul 19, 2023

Who profits from domain names fees

https://lemmy.ml/post/2228639

Who profits from domain names fees - Lemmy

There are some people that asked a similar question but I don’t want who gets raw revenue, but who gets the probably obscene margins (profits thus) from paying $10-20/year for linking a piece of string and an IP address?

Show threadMelllvarJul 19, 2023

Three groups:

  • The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, the non-profit in charge of domain names.
  • Domain sponsors, the organization that agrees to provide the infrastructure for a particular top level domain. For example, .com is sponsored by Verisign.
  • The registrar you deal with has a license from the sponsor to sell registrations for a top level domain.

    • You pay the registrar, the registrar pays the sponsor, and the sponsor pays ICANN.

    Show threadbirdcatJul 19, 2023
    But why is it so expensive? Like 20$ for a .org Domain. Fuck that.
    Show thread0110010001100010Jul 19, 2023
    Cloudflare does no markup pricing, an .org with them is about $10 a year. www.cloudflare.com/products/registrar/
    Cloudflare Registrar | Domain Registration & Renewal

    Cloudflare offers easy, at-cost domain registration and renewals through Cloudflare Registrar. Buy, transfer, and manage your domains with no add-on fees.

    Show threadequidistantWhitfield
    $10/year is super expensive for the cost of linking few thousands of requests to an IP address. The point of my question was: who has obscene margins ?
    Jul 24, 2023 at 5:31amWeb
    Show threadJohanJul 24, 2023

    For .org, the non-profit organization that has “obscene” margins is called PIR en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Public_Interest_Registry However, they hand over most of their profits after expenses to their parent organization ISOC (Internet Society) which among other things operate IETF, an important internet standards organization.

    Of all the top level domains you can complain about, .org is one of the few without a profit motive.

    Public Interest Registry - Wikipedia