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ICANN makes a cut of every registration, not just the TLD application fee, or the quarterly registry fees. ICANN has LOTS of problems, but it is actually incen
by longtailofsighs 5y ago
ICANN makes a cut of every registration, not just the TLD application fee, or the quarterly registry fees.
ICANN has LOTS of problems, but it is actually incentivized to see TLDs in general availability.
- Closi 5y agoGoogle will have paid ICANN $500k just to read the application for these TLD's ($185k * 3) and has paid them an additional $500k since then just to maintain them. I'm not wholly convinced that ICANN is operating solely out of a sense of generosity. It sounds to me more like "pay me a lot of money and I will look after you" (i.e. a protection racket). I suspect ICANN is actually motivated to look after google as a high-paying customer and registrar, rather than be what they should be, which is acting independent, treating everyone the same, and not just using everything as an opportunity to cash-grab.
- dmingod666 5y agoTBF, 500k + 500k for controlling 3 TLDs (333k/TLD) is not a lot of money. For Google it's a rounding error.
- hetspookjee 5y agoIt sometimes is astounding how cheap bribery can be, right?
- Closi 5y agoWhen you sell 1,200 TLDs it ends up being good money. ICANN manage to make $200 million a year for just managing a database of 300 million value key pairs and 1200 tlds.