Can you imagine how much money there is to be made off of.sex?
Now I need to figure out how to raise the money and get it. Though I am sure there will be many fights over that one.
Its worse than that.
I pulled this from http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-draft-agreement-24oct08-en.pdf. Apparently they also charge a crazy QUARTERLY fee to keep it in existence. So much for my genius idea of creating a donation site and taking votes on the most inadvertently funny/abusive TLD to register.
"Section 6.1 Registry-Level Fees. Registry Operator shall pay ICANN a Registry-Level Fee equal
to the greater of (i) the Registry Fixed Fee of US$18,750 per calendar quarter or (ii) the Registry-
Level Transaction Fee calculated per calendar quarter as follows. For any quarter in which the
Registry-Level Transaction Fee as calculated in this Section 6.1 exceeds the Fixed Fee, then the
Registry-Level Transaction Fee shall be paid. The Registry-Level Transaction Fee will be equal to
the number of annual increments of an initial or renewal domain name registration (at one or
more levels, and including renewals associated with transfers from one ICANN-accredited
registrar to another) during the applicable calendar quarter multiplied by US$0.25 (the
âoeTransaction Feeâ) for calendar quarters during which the average annual price of registrations
(including all bundled products or services that may be offered by Registry Operator and
include or are offered in conjunction with a domain name registration) is equal to US$5.00. For
calendar quarters during which the average annual price of registrations is less than US$5.00, the
Transaction Fee will be decreased by US $0.01 for each US$0.20 decrease in the average annual
price of registrations below $5.00, down to a minimum of US$0.01 per transaction. For calendar
quarters during which the average annual price of registrations is greater than US$5.00, the
Transaction Fee will be increased by US $0.01 for each US$0.20 increment in the average annual
price of registrations above $5.00."
I think the whole point is that (omitting the mangled document thing from the other reply) it prevents anyone else from reading/stealing/monitoring your data and hopefully would just be manually read and you would be on your way.
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Where are you doing this "simple search" at? I would be interested in see your sources for the wonderful correlation party you're having.
Can you imagine how much money there is to be made off of .sex?
Now I need to figure out how to raise the money and get it. Though I am sure there will be many fights over that one.
Its worse than that.
I pulled this from http://www.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtld-draft-agreement-24oct08-en.pdf. Apparently they also charge a crazy QUARTERLY fee to keep it in existence. So much for my genius idea of creating a donation site and taking votes on the most inadvertently funny/abusive TLD to register.
"Section 6.1 Registry-Level Fees. Registry Operator shall pay ICANN a Registry-Level Fee equal to the greater of (i) the Registry Fixed Fee of US$18,750 per calendar quarter or (ii) the Registry- Level Transaction Fee calculated per calendar quarter as follows. For any quarter in which the Registry-Level Transaction Fee as calculated in this Section 6.1 exceeds the Fixed Fee, then the Registry-Level Transaction Fee shall be paid. The Registry-Level Transaction Fee will be equal to the number of annual increments of an initial or renewal domain name registration (at one or more levels, and including renewals associated with transfers from one ICANN-accredited registrar to another) during the applicable calendar quarter multiplied by US$0.25 (the âoeTransaction Feeâ) for calendar quarters during which the average annual price of registrations (including all bundled products or services that may be offered by Registry Operator and include or are offered in conjunction with a domain name registration) is equal to US$5.00. For calendar quarters during which the average annual price of registrations is less than US$5.00, the Transaction Fee will be decreased by US $0.01 for each US$0.20 decrease in the average annual price of registrations below $5.00, down to a minimum of US$0.01 per transaction. For calendar quarters during which the average annual price of registrations is greater than US$5.00, the Transaction Fee will be increased by US $0.01 for each US$0.20 increment in the average annual price of registrations above $5.00."
I think the whole point is that (omitting the mangled document thing from the other reply) it prevents anyone else from reading/stealing/monitoring your data and hopefully would just be manually read and you would be on your way.