Thomas Shedd, commissioner of GSA's Technology Transformation Services, directed agencies to eliminate the “low-hanging fruit” of unnecessary federal websites.
Yes but, IIRC for governments that’s a flat fee per quarter regardless of the number of domains plus $0.25 per transaction, registration or de-registration.
Great idea! This will save the taxpayers literally hundreds of dollars in domain registration fees! That’s over 0.0001¢ per taxpayer!!
I am pretty sure they own the .gov TDL.
IIRC there’s still an ICANN fee that has to be paid by the registrar per domain registered
Yes but, IIRC for governments that’s a flat fee per quarter regardless of the number of domains plus $0.25 per transaction, registration or de-registration.
They saved a whole dollar!
And it only cost three dollars.
That money could go to a billionaire!
Technically they own the root DNS server, so they will not be saving a single penny but spending a bunch of money for zero savings.
I might be wrong, but I seem to recall there’s an ICANN fee associated with registration as well.