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To complete the title: "Tuvalu Makes $4M/yr from the .tv Domain".

From a December 2019 Washington Post article[1], there are ~500,000 registered .tv domains. The math on that works out to license fees of ~$8/domain ($4M/500k).

Considering .com is around $10/yr and .tv is around $30/yr[2], I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes ($30 - $8 - $10).

[1] https://www.washingtonpost.com/video-games/2019/12/23/tuvalu...

[2] Namecheap

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> I'm interested to know where the incremental $12 goes

Uh everyone thats not the passive royalties holder? What answer do you really want?

Obviously. More to the point, what other incremental costs exist, if any, that would account for a $20 premium in price when cost appears to be going up by $8?

most likely all profit for incumbents supported by high barriers of entry for a small market.

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