TLD Registrar Wants To Charge $300 For .Pro Names

dipfan writes: "The commercialization of the net continues: RegistryPro, the ICANN-approved registrar of the new TLD name, wants to charge up to $300 for .Pro addresses - or about 10 times the price of a .com address. The company says it will restrict .Pro to doctors, lawyers or accountants: 'qualified professionals in good standing ... .pro will be a premium brand, enabling effective, secure communication between professionals and users for the first time in the history of the Internet.' The Washington Post quotes RegistryPro's chief executive: 'The goal of RegistryPro is to build out a gated community for professionals on the Internet.' Is this what happens when you give one company a license to print money?"

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Hello Moron

[rbeattie]

You're an idiot. (Heehee, I copied that from one of your earlier posts...)

Gated communities are nothing but economic discrimination at its worst. And this type of discrimination usually takes into account all other types of discrimination including racism, sexism, elitism, etc. Your justification for separation of people is pretty disgusting, actually: Those "other" people aren't worthy to live near you. You have a level of society that you think is acceptable and you think that people who are below that level aren't worthy of your interaction. And you think this is fine? What an elitist you are... $10 says you have a gun in your house and you voted for Bush.

I don't mind people being rich. I mind when they think they are special or better because of it.

-Russ