> That's astonishing, the amount of compensation the board thought they could pay themselves. The technical and regulatory complexity of running a domain regis

> That's astonishing, the amount of compensation the board thought they could pay themselves. The technical and regulatory complexity of running a domain registrar do not warrant compensation of such absurd figures. It's ironic that for a company that regards itself as critical infrastructure, their homepage/CMS didn't seem able to handle the traffic from people checking the EGM result. [1] (an hour before being posted to HN) For a registrar that makes the case it is that important, it does seem like they ought to (for that executive compensation) have a website that can handle that level of traffic... [1] https://twitter.com/444rrrggghhh/status/1374103065889026053 https://twitter.com/444rrrggghhh/status/1374103065889026053