Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't nic.ru already make money for each .ru domain that is registered? Much like Verisign makes money for each .com/.net and Affili

Pardon my ignorance, but doesn't nic.ru already make money for each .ru domain that is registered? Much like Verisign makes money for each .com/.net and Affilias makes money for each .name/.org that is registered? Isn't the whole point of running a registry that you also get to collect some sort of fee for running the service?