Actually, if you read the fine print, it is $1000 up front, then $10 a year on the anniversary, so that you have a rolling 100 year registration - in effect, even a greater headache because instead of having to pay an invoice every ten years, you now get stuck with it every year.
That said, the numbers are interesting. The cost is $1000 up front. Figuring a 3% discount rate (low), using a 5 year registration, the Net Present Value for 100 years is $694, or using 10 year registrations, the NPV is only $562.
Using a more realistic rate of 12.5% (a reasonable number for the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for a large company), using the 10 year registrations, the cost is only $215 for 100 years.
But then again, what is it worth to your company to not lose your domain? MS has lost hotmail already. Clearly it would ahve worth $1000 to them to have avoided this problem. Same things goes for probably every single Fortune 1000 company. Even if the accounting system loses the registration and they don't pay for a number of years, chances are they will remember before 100 years passes.
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Actually, if you read the fine print, it is $1000 up front, then $10 a year on the anniversary, so that you have a rolling 100 year registration - in effect, even a greater headache because instead of having to pay an invoice every ten years, you now get stuck with it every year.
That said, the numbers are interesting. The cost is $1000 up front. Figuring a 3% discount rate (low), using a 5 year registration, the Net Present Value for 100 years is $694, or using 10 year registrations, the NPV is only $562.
Using a more realistic rate of 12.5% (a reasonable number for the Weighted Average Cost of Capital for a large company), using the 10 year registrations, the cost is only $215 for 100 years.
But then again, what is it worth to your company to not lose your domain? MS has lost hotmail already. Clearly it would ahve worth $1000 to them to have avoided this problem. Same things goes for probably every single Fortune 1000 company. Even if the accounting system loses the registration and they don't pay for a number of years, chances are they will remember before 100 years passes.