There are some people that asked a similar question but I don’t want who gets raw revenue, but who gets the probably obscene margins (profits thus) from paying $10-20/year for linking a piece of string and an IP address?

  • trent
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    251 year ago

    Don’t forget countries. A few, I don’t have a list, but including .ai, .pn, are in full control of their domains and do it all on their own infra.

    • Melllvar
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      101 year ago

      Country-code TLDs are sponsored by the nation-state, but they still fall under the aegis of ICANN.

      • trent
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        41 year ago

        *Sorta. ICANN has a special relationship with ccTLDs. Registries of gtlds can’t put an A record at the root tld.

    • z3rOR0ne
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      1 year ago

      Yes. Apparently the YouTuber/Web Dev Theo from theo.gg very recently had his domain just…disappear? Due to the country delisting him or something along those lines…he was obviously, and understandably upset in a recent video he released on this subject.

      EDIT: Looks like he got it resolved.