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Who profits from domain names fees
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this post was submitted on 19 Jul 2023
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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.
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 https://www.namebase.io/ the industry already weights half of that whilst the web is super centralized, what the freak