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A comment on Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action. Parent comment

Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by 80fj0348i on Monday October 19, 2026 @01:57AM (#50148871)
Most of the costs to provide digital services are salaries for the employees. You need engineers, support staff, lawyers, and some supporting roles like finance and security/compliance to meet the legal and contractual obligations of the service.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by selcuka on Monday October 19, 2026 @02:48AM (#50149152)
Sure, but remember that Verisign manages a total of 179 million domains. They also have less than 1,000 employees. Can they really have a salary cost of >$530K per employee? It's obviously the executive team that pockets most of that cost.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by MiroslavPokorny on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:20AM (#50149750)
Obviously is not aware of the bonus system in America.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by selcuka on Monday October 19, 2026 @06:51PM (#50159108)
True. I'm not aware of a $500K+ bonus system for "engineers, support staff, lawyers, and some supporting roles like finance and security/compliance" in America.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by 80fj0348i on Tuesday October 20, 2026 @12:59AM (#50161525)
My guy, SWE ICs are making high six to low seven figure annual TCs nowadays in SF. Not exaggerating. RSUs and ESPPs be crazy these last couple of years.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by 80fj0348i on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:30AM (#50149435)
...$530K cost to employ is actually not unheard of for a US based software company, actually. (i.e. including office space, equipment, healthcare, benfits and corporate taxes). Maybe slightly on the high side though.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by sparkling on Monday October 19, 2026 @03:10AM (#50149295)
Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate overhead and inefficiencies.
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Re:Verisign .com Domain Name Registry Consumer Class Action by Arnt on Monday October 19, 2026 @04:33AM (#50149842)
Fyi overhead often add anything up to 100% to the basic salary cost. Office space, hiring, travel, various forms of insurance, these things add up.

And serving DNS for the root or a big zone is technically challenging. You want 100% uptime despite DDoS attacks, that's not simple.

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