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ICANN To Replace 'Digital Archery' Program With Raffle

Posted by timothy on from the to-each-according-to-his-need dept.

itwbennett writes "As Slashdot readers will recall, ICANN has been struggling to find a way to decide which applications to evaluate first. At the end of June, ICANN announced it had abandoned plans to use the Digital Archery contest. Then at the end of July, ICANN said it would process all applications simultaneously. Now there's a new plan in the works: an old-fashioned, manual raffle with tickets costing $100. There's just one catch, though: California law prohibits unlicensed lotteries."

2 of 84 comments (clear)

  1. Money grab by corychristison · · Score: 4, Informative

    This whole thing from day one has been about one thing and one thing only: money.

    I didn't like this gTLD crap when they first announced it and I think this just confirms how bad of a joke this whole thing is.

    If this raffle idea goes through I urge everyone to just ignore it. ICANN needs to get their head out of their ass.

  2. Applications for gTLDs by sexconker · · Score: 4, Informative

    TFS doesn't say what this shit is for. It's for applications for new gTLDs - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain .

    Basically, a bunch of clowns at major corporations want to register their own version of .com, .net, etc.. ICANN said "no that's dumb" for a long time, but someone told them they could make money off of it, so they decided to go for it, but they didn't have any plan on how to handle applications. ICANN as usual fucked it up.

    Now there's probably a hundred applications for .abc and ICANN can't figure out which one to evaluate first.