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 threadsmstnitcJul 20, 2023

    before it opened for companies to be allowed to do registrations I paid $70 for my first .org domain. Back then you were also required to do 2 years up front then you could lay $35 a year after that. This was back in the late 90’s, so $70 was a lot more back then.

    $20 is nothing now.

    Show threadequidistantWhitfield
    If everyone had a personal domain name, at the pic of world population, the total cost of DNS would be $200’000’000’000, it is higher than the GDP of Hungary ! According to www.namebase.io the industry already weights half of that whilst the web is super centralized, what the freak
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