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The $62 wholesale price of .xxx names has been set and fixed since the 2003/2004 application and hasn?t varied. From that amount we have our ICANN fees, payments to McAfee for the Malware scanning service, upcoming payments for a piracy protection service, the cost of our registry back end functionality, a significant marketing budget, and $10 of each registration goes to IFFOR. This price point gives us a sustainable business with a decent rate of return on our projected numbers.
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Here's an idea. If the wholesale price is $62, why not at the very least offer this price to Webmasters who are only buying for the sole reason of protecting their brands? I paid $98.00 to Moniker to register Japanboyz.xxx, so basically any time I register a domain I have to protect my brand, I have to give $36 to the registrar. I think that's a rip off. If I wanted to protect all of my paysite brands, with 20 paysites, it means I'd be paying $720 per year just to the registration company and another $1240 per year to .xxx. While it may not sound like a huge amount, it certainly does effect our bottom lines.