alt Hacker NewsSure, but remember that Verisign manages a total of 179 million domains. They also have less than 1,000 employees. Can they really have a salary cost of >$530K per employee? It's obviously the executive team that pockets most of that cost.
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MiroslavPokorny • today at 8:20 AM
Obviously is not aware of the bonus system in America.
sparkling • today at 7:10 AM
Welcome to the wonderful world of corporate overhead and inefficiencies.
80fj0348i • today at 7:30 AM
...$530K cost to employ is actually not unheard of for a US based software company, actually. (i.e. including office space, equipment, healthcare, benfits and corporate taxes). Maybe slightly on the high side though.
Fyi overhead often add anything up to 100% to the basic salary cost. Office space, hiring, travel, various forms of insurance, these things add up.
And serving DNS for the root or a big zone is technically challenging. You want 100% uptime despite DDoS attacks, that's not simple.