ICANN Asks FTC To Rule On .sucks gTLD Rollout

Posted by Soulskill on Friday April 10, 2015 @04:20AM from the what-could-possibly-go-wrong dept.

DW100 writes: "ICANN, the body in charge of overseeing the management and rollout of new top level domains, has asked the FTC to investigate whether the registry running .sucks is acting illegally . ICANN's in-house legal team raised concerns that the registry was selling the domains to brand owners in a 'predatory' manner. "The issues relate to concerns brands wishing to buy the .sucks domain, which went on sale on 30 March for a three-month ‘clearing house' period, will have to pay $2,500 to register it for their brand. This is far in excess of the price that will be offered to the general public and the price of other top-level domains."

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I guess .sucks sucks by Slashdot+Parent · 2015-04-10 04:22 · Score: 4, Funny

But who will register .sucks.sucks?

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Re:Where's the money going? by blang · 2015-04-10 04:47 · Score: 5, Funny

.isapedofile sounds like a good "business" idea as well.

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Re:Time to retire .com? by ColdWetDog · 2015-04-10 04:57 · Score: 4, Funny

Na, we solve this by getting rid of DNS and just going to straight IP addresses.
That will shut down this eternal September nonsense right quick.

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