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ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs
NdJ writes "Looks like a whole new domain name battle ground is about to open up. ICANN have just made available their How to Apply for a New Generic Top-Level Domain Draft Applicant Guidebook. It won't be cheap for the individual, but certainly achievable for many domain-name-pimps. 'The Evaluation Fee is designed to make the new gTLD program self-funding only. This was a recommendation of the Generic names Supporting Organization. A detailed costing methodology — including historical program development costs, and predictable and uncertain costs associated with processing new gTLD applications through to delegation in the root zone — estimates a per applicant fee of $US185,000. This is the estimated cost per evaluation in the first application round.'"
obvious get rich quick scheme is obvious.
Where is the "Ignorant" mod tag?
...".spam"?
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ICANN has all the moneys?
Use the Firehose to mod down Second Life stories!
a company like McDonalds will now be forced to register "mcdonalds.[every possible alphanumeric string]"
I suspect this will actually force them to register "*.mcdonalds" as a TLD. And likewise with other big companies.
I fully support this new .con TLD initiative for scammers and thieves.
Of course, this means a company like McDonalds will now be forced to register "mcdonalds.[every possible alphanumeric string]" -- this ought to be interesting.
Does this mean ICANN has cheezburger?
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Because they CANN. Apparently.
Because you can - or because you should?
Not, we are talking about a body that is subordinated to "the people" here. ISO is an independent not for profit organization, quite like ICANN.
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You study hard, work hard, get promoted to a high ranking position in a large company, obviously.
Definitely not by doing anything sexually explicit.
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I'm currently in the process of getting loans to register ".sucks", and ".lol".
I'll sell domains and make tons of money.