Pay up or Sell up, ICANN Tells Failing New gTLD (domainincite.com)
ICANN has responded to a request for it to reduce the $25,000 annual fee it charges gTLD registries. The answer is no. From a report: That wholly unsurprising reply came in a letter from registry services director Russ Weinstein to John McCabe, CEO of failing new gTLD operator Who's Who Registry. McCabe, in November, had asked ICANN to reduce its fees for TLDs, such as its own .whoswho, that have zero levels of abuse. ICANN fees are the "single biggest item" in the company's budget, he said. His request coincided with ICANN commencing compliance proceedings against the company for failure to pay these fees.
Weinstein wrote, in a letter [PDF] published today: "We sympathize with the financial challenges that some new gTLD registry operators may be facing in the early periods of these new businesses. New gTLD operators face a challenging task of building consumer awareness and this can and may take significant time and effort." But he goes on to point out that the $25,000-a-year fee was known to all applicants before they applied, and had been subject to numerous rounds of public comment before the Applicant Guidebook was finalized.
Weinstein wrote, in a letter [PDF] published today: "We sympathize with the financial challenges that some new gTLD registry operators may be facing in the early periods of these new businesses. New gTLD operators face a challenging task of building consumer awareness and this can and may take significant time and effort." But he goes on to point out that the $25,000-a-year fee was known to all applicants before they applied, and had been subject to numerous rounds of public comment before the Applicant Guidebook was finalized.
If you can't afford the main thing you're building your business around, maybe you shouldn't be in business.
Your hair look like poop, Bob! - Wanker.
Im aware of tons of novelty TLDs, following them closely for various business purposes. I've never even heard of "whoswho" until this article, and on top of that would never even think about registering it. That TLD is just a bad phrase. Who in their right mind would want a domain like Bobman.whoswho, it just looks and sounds ridiculous.
It stands to reason that no sales would result in no resource usage, so the $25k may be the only real expense. This is not evidence that the price is too high, but rather a bunch of TLDs are stupid.
I think you underestimate just how much I just dont care.
If the $25,000 bill is the single largest item in that the budget, it's a hobby. He's working for free and any employees are also in exchange for future equity.
to 3 Fiddy per domain. /s
I think you can buy domains for a lot less than $25K
I must have actually remembered to publicly comment along the lines of:
Please ensure you're charging the domain operators of stupid gTLD's enough per year so they go out of business and disappear.
Assuming at least one person did buy one of their domains, what happens to their registrations if ICANN shuts the TLD down?
Spam touting bogus "Who's Who" publications ("You have been selected! Pay use $$$ and we'll put you in our publication that's only bought by other suckers!!") used to be really rampant. Maybe they still are, but I haven't seen one in a while... my rules for this sort of thing are pretty draconian, though.
But just the phrase "Who's Who" makes my eyelid twitch, and my "Ban the domain, ban the IP address, ban every phrase appearing anywhere in the email" finger starts to itch.
See subject: I filter for VALID tld/gtld in my hosts program (filters out bloat OR illegal ones as I do #comments lines OR trailing BS that bloats hosts slowing its load)!
So when they add more I have to add more (+ do a recompile)!
* Periodically they add more (for 25k per NEW gTLD registration? Please - lol!).
APK
P.S.=> 1 of my best sources past 15++ yrs. for hosts data's having trouble: Malwarebytes' hpHosts maintainer Mr. Steven Burn (their "Website Protection Team Lead" no less) had a stroke in March 2018 & getting ahold of him for updates I upload is getting TOUGH (He's in BAD shape) + they JUST yesterday discontinued FULL build of hosts data & do ONLY partials here https://hosts-file.net/?s=Down... ... means I had to ALTER my APKIniFile.ini for my program for hpHosts to:
[hpHosts1]
Value = http://www.malwaredomainlist.c...
To compensate (or see an "error/abend" which my CUSTOM errhandler logs & compensates for & stops OUTRIGHT "CRASH" but still a PAIN)
I never could figure out why a generic TLD was needed. Apparently nobody else could either.
UCANNOT
But how did the whole whois situation get resolved with regards to european privacy laws?
People were saying it was going to be the end of the internet and the end of icann and how was anyone ever going to sell a domain again.
Haven't noticed anything myself.
I thought it was $300K ... is $25K a renewal price?
I know a few people who would pay $25K/yr for a vanity TLD (or nonprofit consortium, even).
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
It's here! APK Hosts File Engine 1.0++ 64-bit for MacOS h t t p : / / a p k . i t - m a t e . c o . u k / A P K H o s t s F i l e E n g i n e F o r M a c O S . z i p
Yields more security/speed/reliability/anonymity vs. any 1 solution (99% of threats use hostnames vs. IP address most firewalls use) more efficiently/FASTER + NATIVELY 4 less!
Vs. "Bolt on 'MoAr' illogic-logic" slowing you hosts speed u up 2 ways: Adblocks + Hardcode fav. sites u spend most time @ vs. competition loaded w/ security bugs (DNS/AntiVir) + overheads slowing u (messagepass 'souled-out' to advertisers easily detected & blocked addons + firewall filtering drivers) & their complexity leads to exploitation!
* ONLY 1 of its kind in GUI 4 MacOS!
(Better vs. Windows model in speed/efficiency)
APK
P.S.=> Protects against ALL known & unknown vulnerabilities. Now supports port filters in hosts. My work is world-class & China copied it because they can't do better. I am God's gift to Slashdot... apk
There are too many shitty TLDs.
We see now that most of the new domains being used in phishing emails are in one of the new TLDs.
It is an ongoing discussion at our company if we should just block most of the new (the unestablished, and non country) TLDs.
I am pretty certain it will happen soon, as no serious business would consider using them anyway.
It would not surprise me if others start doing the same.
Which would significantly reduce the value of owning a TLD.
If anyone is stupid enough to spend that kind of cash on a TLD every last penny of it should be donated to UNICEF, NAMBLA, GREENPEACE and the KKK/DJT reelection fund.
Under no circumstance should even a penny of it ever be handed to ICANN.
See subject & like I told you before, my MacOS version isn't ready yet + proof my program STOPS portfilter errors https://yro.slashdot.org/comme... STUPID!
* Unbelievable!
APK
P.S.=> Can you get some professional psychiatric HELP for your OBSESSION w/ BOTH your STALKING me by UNIDENTIFIABLE anonymous posts (that everyone sees on /.) + your IMPERSONATING me telling lies? apk