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That's cheap. And I thought Route53 for $12.99 was cheap already.

That's the wholesale price. When you pay Route53 $12.99, they remit $7.85 to Verisign, who maintains the authoritative registry for the .com TLD.

By jacking up the wholesale rate by 7% (the largest annual increase they're allowed, per their ICANN agreement[1]), every single .com registration and renewal becomes 7% more expensive. Requiring services like Route53 to either pass it through to consumers or eat the cost increase themselves, if they even have the margins to.

[1] https://onlinedomain.com/2020/01/03/domain-name-news/icann-a...

$12.99 for a .com registration is a hilariously overpriced ripoff.

It's just fine when I don't have to leave the AWS console and click two buttons vs. using some other service.

I understand paying extra to make your life a little easier. Doesn't change the fact that in the world of .com domain registration, it's hilariously overpriced.

And yet people pay it routinely every day which is probably why Big V’s probably not afraid of upping the wholesale rate secure that the Amazon and the like are the one’s most likely to eat their own margins to not lose customers due to a consumer facing price hike.

cloudflare sells without profit

In that case it’s subsidized by their other offerings.

How can you infer that? I can see how you could infer it if they were selling them at a loss, but not from selling them without profit.

It must still cost Cloudflare something to offer to this service.

There are other companies that do the same, but have a (small) subscription fee for their profit. But the prices of all domains are without any margin.

The costs would be minimal, but it gives them another hook to try and get you into their paid services.

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