[throwoutway]

> if you see registrars charging less than $10-15/yr/tld varies by TLD then they are making their money from their customers by up-selling other services.

Isn’t the base fee like $1-2? Did it really go up to $10?

[smugma]

ICANN: $0.18 Verisign (.com registry): $7.85

So that’s $8, plus credit card fees of ~$0.30 and their own hosting, ICANN fixed costs, etc.

I would say $8.50 is almost definitely below break, and $9-10 probably so.