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What is the real yearly cost of managing each .com domain? To put it differently, what would be the profit margin for a .com registry maintainer that operated
by domador 5y ago
What is the real yearly cost of managing each .com domain?
To put it differently, what would be the profit margin for a .com registry maintainer that operated at reasonable efficiency (which might or might not reflect Verisign's own efficiency)?
A related question: what would be the base, fixed costs for running a reasonably efficient .com registry and what would be the additional per-domain costs?
- mavhc 5y agoServers to register and get money. DNS server. ICANN fee per domain (of which about 10% is spent on running ICANN servers, rest is other stuff) So less than $1 I'd bet
- dsr_ 5y agoIt's a database with CRUD operations and some authentication, and a report generator that runs effectively a part-of-all-rows dump every so often. The size of the database for .com is about 150 million records. At 4KB per record (generous), that's 600MB. It fits n RAM on a laptop you wouldn't consider suitable for using at the office. Number of transactions other than reports is roughly 1 per year per record plus 10% growth, so about 5 per second.
- iancarroll 5y ago150,000,000 records * 4000 bytes per record = 600GB.
- dsr_ 5y agoAh, math. Thanks. OK, it fits in RAM on a single modern commodity server, and is updated at a rate which can easily be handled by such a server.