Re: the tiny domain business, not a utility, was Parler

["John Levine" <johnl () iecc com>]

In article <695823102.10322.1610397074140.JavaMail.zimbra () cluecentral net>,
Sabri Berisha <sabri () cluecentral net> wrote:
> > "The DNS is a natural monopoly. ...

> There is also money being made in DNS. A lot of money is being made in DNS. 
>
> According to Verisign(1) Q3 of 2020 closed with 370.7 million new registrations.

That's total registrations across all TLDs, not new registrations.
Verisign is by far the largest registry with about 115M in .COM and
15M in .NET.

I agree that the total annual revenue of the domain biz, add up
everything from Verisign and Godaddy on down, is in the ballpark of $5
billion/year.

By comparison, that's about what Google makes every 10 days or what
Apple makes every week. Verisign is a highly profitable fish in a tiny
pool.
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