Running a Domain Costs About a Dollar a Year. Here Is What Eight Registries Charge for It.

Montenegro’s case for taking .me back under state control leaned on an argument about money: the domain earned €114 million between 2008 and 2025, the state kept about a third, and it now wants at least half. Underneath sits a question the industry rarely answers with numbers: what does running a top-level domain actually cost, and how much of the wholesale fee is cost rather than allocation?

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