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What costs? They have to run some DNS and WHOIS servers, plus collect money. This isn't rocket fusion, this is something every country, no matter how tiny, man

What costs? They have to run some DNS and WHOIS servers, plus collect money. This isn't rocket fusion, this is something every country, no matter how tiny, manages to deal with for their own national domain. If they're in way over their heads maybe they should out-source components of it, but retain control over things like pricing. Or, sure, sell it off. I'm sure nothing bad will happen like when .com went evil.

pas 7y ago
> costs OP meant that current .org clients can ditch .org if/when costs for them (profits for .org) gets too high. > ... Many countries just contract some registrar/registry/regperson to provide the service. But of course, it's dead simple. (The complications arise if you are .com and thousands of squatters try to catch dropping domains, etc.)
- astrodust 7y ago
  The costs of a .org domain should be proportional to the cost of providing a .org domain. What costs are there for running a registry that require a huge price-tag? There are wholesale registrars that will provide white-label service for a couple of bucks a domain per year. The costs can't be that high.
  - pas 7y ago
    "Costs" doesn't mean real operational costs and so on. It is used as an accounting/business concept. Simply any .org customer has a yearly associated cost for having/leasing that .org domain. OP's comment doesn't distinguish between different sources of that cost. (Sure, it has many components, the cost for the network, servers, development, security, backup, payroll, legal, accounting, some sales, marketing, audits/compliance, insurance, whatever risk premium, maybe off site backups, disaster recovery, outreach, bonus projects, 20% time, blablabla. Plus profits.) Obviously everyone knows that the profits is the part that will now grow much larger. And eventually the .org customers will ditch .org because of that. But OP is right, from .org customers' standpoint, it doesn't matter why, it just matters that their costs will rise and as soon as it crosses a point (cost of switching becomes less than the cost for remaining on .org) folks will leave.

pas 7y ago

> costs OP meant that current .org clients can ditch .org if/when costs for them (profits for .org) gets too high. > ... Many countries just contract some registrar/registry/regperson to provide the service. But of course, it's dead simple. (The complications arise if you are .com and thousands of squatters try to catch dropping domains, etc.)

astrodust 7y ago
The costs of a .org domain should be proportional to the cost of providing a .org domain. What costs are there for running a registry that require a huge price-tag? There are wholesale registrars that will provide white-label service for a couple of bucks a domain per year. The costs can't be that high.
- pas 7y ago
  "Costs" doesn't mean real operational costs and so on. It is used as an accounting/business concept. Simply any .org customer has a yearly associated cost for having/leasing that .org domain. OP's comment doesn't distinguish between different sources of that cost. (Sure, it has many components, the cost for the network, servers, development, security, backup, payroll, legal, accounting, some sales, marketing, audits/compliance, insurance, whatever risk premium, maybe off site backups, disaster recovery, outreach, bonus projects, 20% time, blablabla. Plus profits.) Obviously everyone knows that the profits is the part that will now grow much larger. And eventually the .org customers will ditch .org because of that. But OP is right, from .org customers' standpoint, it doesn't matter why, it just matters that their costs will rise and as soon as it crosses a point (cost of switching becomes less than the cost for remaining on .org) folks will leave.