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		citricsquid on April 22, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Meet the 'Mann' who registered 14,962 domains in 2... The majority of that $100K doesn't go to GoDaddy. I believe the current cost of a .com from verisign is $7.21 + $0.19 ICANN fee, then transactions fees etc... godaddy probably takes home about $0.50 per domain, so they made maybe $5k off this guy.

slamdunc on April 23, 2012 [–]

Oh, thank goodness (and thanks for the clarification - I hadn't thought it through very well).

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