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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by roywiggins on Saturday June 18, 2016 @03:28PM (#11930185)
What if I register a domain with a shell corp and a straw "contact" who is an employee of Mossack Fonseca (or whatever)? If I want to transfer the domain I just sell the shell corp.
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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by MichaelBurge on Saturday June 18, 2016 @07:12PM (#11931051)
Then you have to pay an extra $50 or $100 a year to maintain your corporation per domain, which reduces the number of domains you can own with a fixed amount of expenses.
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Re:If ICANN only charges 18¢ per domain name, why am I payin... by zAy0LfpBZLC8mAC on Saturday June 18, 2016 @10:17PM (#11931554)
No, that would just cause a new form of corporation to arise in some jurisdiction that costs a dollar per year to maintain, that's limited to owning a single domain name.
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