ICANN fees

The payments that registries (glossary)registry The central database and system of a top-level domain, or loosely the organization that runs it. Full definition of registry and registrars (glossary)registrar A company that registers domain names for customers with the registry. Full definition of registrar make to ICANN (glossary)ICANN Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers The nonprofit that coordinates the global DNS and gTLD policy. Full definition of ICANN under their contracts. Registrars pay a yearly accreditation fee, a variable fee and a fee per domain transaction. Registries pay a fixed fee and, above a set volume, a fee per transaction. These fees fund most of ICANN's budget.