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Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by charcircuit on Tuesday October 05, 2021 @07:29PM (#28767081)
There are also fees you have to pay to the owner of the tld. For example .com has a $8.39 fee. In total that would be $8.57 per .com domain.

You are off by a factor of almost 50.

Re:Facebook-owned sites were down by computator on Thursday October 07, 2021 @12:30AM (#28781931)
I didn't know that, and you're right. For anyone who's interested, I found the following references regarding the $8.39 additional fee for a .com registration:

https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/com/c...

https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/stewart...

https://www.icann.org/en/announcements/details/icann-and-ver...