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The Beginnings of a TLD Free-For-All?

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the bad-ideas dept.

Mordok-DestroyerOfWo writes "According to the BBC, ICANN is considering opening up the wholesale creation of TLDs by private industry. While I'm sure this is done for the convenience of the companies and has nothing to do with the several thousand dollars they will be charging for each registration, I was curious what the tech community at large thought about this idea. It seems to me that this will simply open the doors for a never-ending stream of TLD squatters."

2 of 489 comments (clear)

  1. Re:ICANN should make domains more expensive by metamatic · · Score: 5, Interesting

    You missed

    3) Prohibit exchange of domain names. Don't want one? Let it expire and it goes back into the pool. No, you can't sell it, any more than you can sell your telephone number.

    But again, this wouldn't benefit the registrars, so it won't happen.

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  2. Re:Bad Idea....Bad Bad Bad by Scorchio · · Score: 5, Interesting

    Never mind the levels of confusion it would be creating.

    Especially when I start registering common file extensions, like .exe, .bat, .jpg, .txt...