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$185, plus the infrastructure and know-how to run it.
by icebraining 8y ago
$185, plus the infrastructure and know-how to run it.
- dannypgh 8y agoI think the ability to setup BIND is easier to acquire than $185,000.
- mcpherrinm 8y ago185,000 is cheaper than the cost of two full time employees, which is the minimum for 24/7/365 oncall. I assume nobody is going to pay $185k for a hobby project.
- matte_black 8y agoCan’t you just get two Indians employed full time for cheap?
- labster 8y agoI wouldn't be too sure about that. America's Cup and Formula One racing exist, so there are definitely expensive hobbies.
- Kostic 8y agoIt really depends where your techs live. 185k is enough money to pay a 4 person team of highly skilled techs in south-eastern Europe for over one year, for example.
- CydeWeys 8y agoThere's a lot more to running a TLD than just running DNS. That's only a small portion of it. Running a TLD is non-trivial and there's a reason most gTLDs are run by big players or hosted by contract by same.
- foepys 8y agoAren't most gTLDs hosted by only a few ISPs that also host some of the smaller ccTLDs? I'd imagine that the actual hosting costs are quite small if you don't have millions of domains with billions of DNS requests per second.
- lucb1e 8y agoI'll run your TLD for $10 a month and make you a site to do registrations for $1000. This is sufficient up until a few thousand domains. Of course that's not the common case, but the "plus infra and expertise" part is negligible compared to the ICANN fee if you just want a private gTLD.