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

[Sandy Harris <sandy@storm.ca>]

Sotiris wrote:
> 
> 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...

Perhaps, but if the price went up only in .com and plenty of alternatives
were available, then perhaps not.

Most of my recent posts are an attempt to get people questioning assumptions,
"thinking outside the box".

My point above isn't that $500 fees in .com (or my other suggstions which
you snipped) would be a good idea, only that they'd make more sense in terms
of solving the real problem (overuse and over-marketing of .com) than the
ludicrous $50,000 to apply for a TLD. That is an obstacle, not a step toward
solution.

If we can get a conversation going about (what I see as) the real problem,
then better solutions than I've proposed will likely pop up.
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