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> That is probably just as well, because a year later, it had been reclassified as a "premium" name. The renewal fee was over $400,000. At that price it may be
by throw0101a 5y ago
> That is probably just as well, because a year later, it had been reclassified as a "premium" name. The renewal fee was over $400,000.
At that price it may be cheaper to simply create your own TLD.
- moonchild 5y agoIndeed; registration fees are about $100k, and infrastructure costs a similar amount.
- judge2020 5y agoSpecifically this link shows $185,000 and $6,250 per calendar quarter: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en#:~:text=5.2%20How%20much%20is%20the%20evaluation%20fee%3F https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs... For infrastructure, I can imagine this being a case a single colocated server rack would work great, especially if you don't expect your TLD to be super popular among other people (SaaS likely wouldn't be suitable due to the high industry bandwidth costs).
- sneak 5y agoDNS doesn't use a lot of bandwidth, and has built-in caching.
- throw0101a 5y agoThe bandwidth usage is low unless you're DDoSed. It may be prudent to have some of your own distributed servers act as hidden masters, and then use a DNS anycast service for the publicly listed servers.