The $40 renewal fee on a dotcom seems to indicate that the poster was set up with a 'reseller' account and that some price gouging was at play, regardless of th

The $40 renewal fee on a dotcom seems to indicate that the poster was set up with a 'reseller' account and that some price gouging was at play, regardless of the circumstances around the auction. The parent of a reseller account decides the price of domain purchases and collects the difference between the parent account's actual cost for the domain (depending on whatever fees _their_ parent charges them..) and the cost that the reseller paid. On my eNom reseller account, I pay $9.45 to renew a dotcom domain, and I believe that my parent is taking at least $1 per domain out of that fee (at least, they were 10 years ago when I first received my account). It's likely that NameJet are the parent company if this account was setup with eNom on the poster's behalf due to an auction with them. It looks like they skim another $30+ off of each sale this way, if this was a 1 year renewal instead of a 4 year..