> The $10 a year includes the markup of a profit making domain registrar which has marketing and support costs. I use Cloudflare Registrar these days for .com

> The $10 a year includes the markup of a profit making domain registrar which has marketing and support costs. I use Cloudflare Registrar these days for .com and .org. They claim to offer wholesale prices. My last .org bill was $9.90 + ICANN fee. And according to [1], Cloudflare directly work with PIR to offer .org, so unless they're lying, they are actually charged $9.90 per domain per year by PIR. Now, the article you linked to claims that PIR paid less than $2 per domain to the for-profit contractor who did everything technical for them (what's left? PR?). I wonder where the remaining $7.90 went... [1] https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ https://www.cloudflare.com/tld-policies/ Edit: Apparently overlooked the beneficiary part. Not a fan of mandatory donations but at least the numbers sort of add up now.