ex-ICANN Board member says .COM costs $0.14

Quote:
Karl Auerbach, a former ICANN board member, told Name Intelligence that Verisign spends less then 14 cents to maintain a domain name in its registry.
SOURCE: ex-ICANN Board member says .COM costs $0.14 » DomainTools Blog

That's pretty messed up considering they just announced they are raising fees by 42 cents.

Another example that money is the only thing that matters to people... jeeze...

So we are actually paying a hell lot more just because of some others who are inconsiderate and do domain tasting.

**** , they`r nuts . From 0.14 to 6-8-10$ a .com domain ...
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[ALiK]

still, the domainregistrars have to pay their employees !

[TsE]

Yes but still if a packet of milk costs $0.14 to make they ain't selling it for $6 ..
And they also got employees

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That is insane as I have seen some registrars selling .com domains for $15 a year the profit margin is huge.

Originally Posted by daryo

so is there any way that we can register it directly through ICANN ?

No. And what makes you think they won't charge registrars $6.42 instead, even
though they're a non-profit organization?

Well, guess then we're all in a rip-off.

Great. Just great. We should just move on to another TLD, but they also maintain .net, too, right? What are our other options, then? Anyone have any ideas?

[FlashPixels]

You should send that to the trading standards. That's unfair charges. I'm sure there must be a rule for charging like 5000% profit.