kaŝperanto:If five figures is really the going rate

Alas, I was mistaken. The details aren't immediately clear to me, but it's actually much more, and there is a steep annual "renewal" fee. (I should have looked it up first.)

http://domainnamewire.com/2012/07/24/just-how-much...

ICANN has essentially ensured that only the super-rich and large corporations will be able to deal in TLDs - while lining their pockets at the same time.

Here's an article that suggests TLDs are over-hyped. I tend to agree, honestly. lingvo.eo and the like would be cool, but not worth that kind of expense and hassle.

Tempodivalse:ICANN has essentially ensured that only the super-rich and large corporations will be able to deal in TLDs - while lining their pockets at the same time.

^ This.

makis:

Tempodivalse:ICANN has essentially ensured that only the super-rich and large corporations will be able to deal in TLDs - while lining their pockets at the same time.

^ This.

Not sure this is a bad thing. How much would you like to have to remember several hundred different TLDs that don't follow national/regional abbreviations? I sure wouldn't. It would make it way to easy to hijack sites to take advantage of technically illiterate people who wouldn't notice the important difference between www.firstesperantobank.eo and www.firstesperantobank.eu. I already have a hard time remembering if a site is a .com or a .net

kaŝperanto:

makis:

Tempodivalse:ICANN has essentially ensured that only the super-rich and large corporations will be able to deal in TLDs - while lining their pockets at the same time.

^ This.

Not sure this is a bad thing. How much would you like to have to remember several hundred different TLDs that don't follow national/regional abbreviations? I sure wouldn't. It would make it way to easy to hijack sites to take advantage of technically illiterate people who wouldn't notice the important difference between www.firstesperantobank.eo and www.firstesperantobank.eu. I already have a hard time remembering if a site is a .com or a .net

There are other ways of vetting individuals or groups wishing to buy top-level domains. In fact, as I understand from reading the articles I linked to (and others), there is already a fairly complicated background check run to determine if there is any past history of squatting, phishing, etc., before ICANN will approve the request.