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Who profits from domain names fees (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by equidistantWhitfield@lemmy.ml to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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?

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[–] charonn0@startrek.website 91 points 1 year ago (22 children)

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.

[–] trent@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Don't forget countries. A few, I don't have a list, but including .ai, .pn, are in full control of their domains and do it all on their own infra.

[–] charonn0@startrek.website 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Country-code TLDs are sponsored by the nation-state, but they still fall under the aegis of ICANN.

[–] trent@kbin.social 4 points 1 year ago

*Sorta. ICANN has a special relationship with ccTLDs. Registries of gtlds can't put an A record at the root tld.

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