Lights That Blink » icann http://lightsthatblink.com blogging on stuff with lights that blink Tue, 01 Jan 2008 00:41:06 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 How much does a domain name really cost? http://lightsthatblink.com/how-much-does-domain-name-cost/ http://lightsthatblink.com/how-much-does-domain-name-cost/#comments Tue, 10 Apr 2007 04:32:33 +0000 Doug http://lightsthatblink.com/how-much-does-domain-name-cost/ Continue reading →]]> Less than 14 cents.

I’ve been following interesting domain name news at the DomainTools blog, where I learned that Verisign was hiking their .com prices for wholesalers. Here is the latest tidbit from the blog:

During my recent interview with Karl Auerbach, a former ICANN board member, he told Name Intelligence that Verisign spends less then 14 cents to maintain a domain name in its registry.

Amazing. So what is the price hike for?

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