only a quarter?
For the longest time I had been wondering how it was that registrars like GoDaddy could charge $10 USD (or less) for a domain when the going rate was around $30-50. Of course, I hate the GoDaddy site; I find their site far too cluttered and a gongshow overall. Of course, Network Solutions isn’t much better anymore.
I used to have all my domains registered with Network Solutions, believing that since they had been doing it for so long that they could be trusted not to mess up anything to do with my domains. I’ve since smartened up and moved all my domains over to webnames.ca, the spin-off of the original dot-CA registrar. They have a partnership with register.com and I get a bulk deal since I have so many domains.
But then I read an article that mentioned that ICANN gets 25 cents for each domain registered and my immediate reaction was WTF? But upon further investigation (you can’t trust newspapers these days) it seems that Network Solutions also gets $6 per domain to run the “big database”.
Whatever the case, one has to wonder how it costs $24-44 per domain to register a domain and support me as a customer, especially if I have many, many domains.
Wed, 02 Mar 2005 20:06 Posted in Technology
