{"id":10691,"date":"2007-05-01T16:27:19","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T13:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/01\/every-cent-matters\/"},"modified":"2007-05-01T16:27:19","modified_gmt":"2007-05-01T13:27:19","slug":"every-cent-matters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2007\/05\/01\/every-cent-matters\/","title":{"rendered":"Every cent matters"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

I have received an email from GoDaddy<\/a> today, which kind of made me think about how small things matter. Here is a quote:<\/p>\n

Dear Leonid Mamchenkov,<\/p>\n

The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you?<\/p>\n

Good news. You have been credited $.03\/yr for each domain name you registered or renewed dating back to July 1, 2006* — $1.02 has been placed into your Go Daddy(R) account<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For non-technical folks among you, here is a quick explanation. Whenever anybody registers a domain name (such as mamchenkov.com or google.com), they pay some money. $0.25 USD of those money goes to the organization called ICANN<\/a>, which controls domain name distribution. Recently, ICANN decided to charge a bit less – only $0.22 USD. So, all those people who registered any domain names since July 1st, 2006 should get a refund of $0.03 USD for each domain they registered.<\/p>\n

Who cares about three cents, right? Well, not that many people do. But here is a good example of how small things build up. I am not a domain name king by any measure. I just have a few domains here and there. But even with me, those three cents per domain built up into more than a dollar ($1.02 USD). <\/p>\n

Those people who have thousands of domains are experiencing an uncontrolled feeling of joy right now…<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n

I have received an email from GoDaddy today, which kind of made me think about how small things matter. Here is a quote: Dear Leonid Mamchenkov, The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN(R)) recently agreed to reduce their Registrar Transaction Fee from $.25 to $.22. What does this mean for you? Good news. … Continue reading Every cent matters<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"keyring_services":[],"class_list":["post-10691","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9824,"url":"https:\/\/mamchenkov.net\/wordpress\/2006\/01\/11\/the-cheapest-way-of-finding-the-domain-name\/","url_meta":{"origin":10691,"position":0},"title":"The cheapest way of finding the domain name","author":"Leonid Mamchenkov","date":"January 11, 2006","format":false,"excerpt":"I came across this post at Blogging Pro. 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