Originally Posted by Robbie

Anyway, Al is a very diligent and smart person and he does extensive research and learns everything about any enterprise he gets into. He told me that the ACTUAL cost of a domain was something crazy like 35 cents or so and even less if you bought thousands of them at a time (some companies bought every combination of 4 and 5 character domains for instance back in the day and then resold them for millions)

So anyway, I'm pretty sure that there IS a big profit margin for domain registrars. And the privacy and other stuff they sell is the gravy. Similar to the back end of a car deal (warranties, service contracts, etc. when you buy a car)