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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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[โ€“] mojo@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I assume you weren't being literal about the free domains part, but I agree lol. No reason why one domain should cost $1000 when the other cost $20. It's the exact same technical setup. Prices should vary if they're already bought, but that's about it. That's why I like my .dev TLD because all of those are a flat $15/yr. Yet something cool for the hip techy youngsters would be like a .io domain, but those are $100+. Like why?

A guy told me that the one ripping us off is the TLD owner so I guess the TLD owner is ripping even more people renting .io domains