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Applications Fees will cost be between $100,000 – $500,000 NON-
REFUNDABLE.
You must prove technical competence to run the registry which some estimate
can run into millions. This is designed for Big Corporations.
The internet is being catalogued and sold to Big Money interests.
All the domains in the new TLD can be kept, sold at whatever price
the owner pleases or rented. The best TLDs will be auctioned to the highest
bidder. Good luck with your application.
:rolleyes:
@aleph 167081 wrote:
Applications Fees will cost be between $100,000 – $500,000 NON-
REFUNDABLE.
You must prove technical competence to run the registry which some estimate
can run into millions. This is designed for Big Corporations.
The internet is being catalogued and sold to Big Money interests.
All the domains in the new TLD can be kept, sold at whatever price
the owner pleases or rented. The best TLDs will be auctioned to the highest
bidder. Good luck with your application.
:rolleyes:
I suggest we wait and see. There is every likelihood existing registrars like GoDaddy etc will buy the TLD rights for the figures you state, then sell the domains much like they do with standard TLDs at the moment.
Last night read a long thread on this at DNForum (the leading domain name forum) and everyone there seems quite blasé about it with most speculating that while it will devalue a lot of extensions, .com will continue to rule for some years and all this means is lots more options are available.
The devaluing comes to resellers – they feel a lot of people will forego spending $20k acquiring “mycasino.com” and spend $20 acquiring “my.casino”, although if .com remains the #1 extension then it’s value is maintained. A lot depends how the search engines treat the new extensions. If they go the way of “.info” or “.biz” then they will be low value, short term at least. If Google decides to give them weighting then their value will rise.
ICANN stated the best TLD’s may be auctioned to the highest bidder. But that’s the TLD. Doesn’t concern us. Then depends how much the TLD owner wants to sell each domain for. And they will need to be competitive as there are potentially many options for users.
Dilution is dilution and will affect all .coms.
