Re: [ga] Do we need TLDs at all?

[Sotiris <sotiris@hermesnetwork.com>]

Sandy Harris wrote:

> Registrations of second level domains in the global TLDs currently
> cost about $20. ICANN happily imposed a $50,000 fee just to apply
> for a new TLD. There's absolutely no technical reason for that.
> Arguably, a more useful move would be to bump .com registration to
> perhaps $500 to get people out of there, of course with some sort
> of grace period to let domain owners plan for change.

About the only effect this would have would be to concentrate the onwership of names in
the hands of those with enough money to buy them up at this price.  This would not
affect the after-market deals in any way, except of course to drive the prices up even
further...

Sotiris Sotiropoulos
        Individual

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