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ICANN Proposes New Way To Buy Top-Level Domains

Posted by timothy on from the how-about-vending-machines dept.

narramissic writes "Late last week, ICANN put up for comment a new top-level domain (TLD) proposal that would open up the market for generic TLDs on the Internet, basically allowing anyone with $185,000 to buy a new TLD. ICANN has based the cost of a generic TLD on what it believes will be the cost to evaluate applications and protect the organization against risk, said Paul Levins, ICANN's executive officer and vice president for corporate affairs. Any excess money would be redistributed based on the wishes of the Internet community, he said. As of late Tuesday, there were only a couple of comments on the proposal."

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  1. Yes! by Gizzmonic · · Score: 5, Funny

    Now I can finally register clownpenis.fart !

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    1. Re:Yes! by SatanicPuppy · · Score: 5, Funny

      More than it's worth? Sex.com never even came close to making back it's...hem...wad.

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    2. Re:Yes! by tverbeek · · Score: 5, Funny

      ICANN has .cheezburger?

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    3. Re:Yes! by jez9999 · · Score: 5, Funny

      You were just waiting 10 years to say that one, weren't you? :-)

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  2. Coming soon... by Sockatume · · Score: 4, Funny

    Slashdot takes the piss by setting its new homepage at aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slash-dot-dot-dot-slashdot. All those going to aich-tee-tee-pee-colon-slash-slash-slashdot-dot-com are redirected to idle.

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  3. Re:money? by eln · · Score: 4, Funny

    Since it's going to be spent according to the wishes of the "Internet community", I can only assume 95% of it will be spent on porn.

  4. Re:Hmmm... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    Just wait until someone gets FuckYou.Jesus