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by citricsquid 5172 days ago
The majority of that $100K doesn't go to GoDaddy. I believe the current cost of a .com from verisign is $7.21 + $0.19 ICANN fee, then transactions fees etc... godaddy probably takes home about $0.50 per domain, so they made maybe $5k off this guy.
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Oh, thank goodness (and thanks for the clarification - I hadn't thought it through very well).