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Richard Li owns a personal top level domain
- divyekapoor 4y agoWho is Richard Li?
- IndrekR 4y agoHad the same question myself. Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Li https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Li
- edmcnulty101 4y agoI think a Hong Kong businessman?
- johnzim 4y agoLi KaShing's son. More specifically head of PCC - a digital conglomerate from/in HK.
- edmcnulty101 4y agoHow can I get a personal top level domain?
- alexforster 4y agoGive several hundred thousand dollars to ICANN.
- toast0 4y agoYou may also need a time machine. I don't think they're taking applications right now.
- jesterson 4y agoMay I know if you are speaking from experience/knowledge? Thinking to have root domain for a holding company, wondering the cost.
- alexforster 4y agoThis is easily searchable, so... I doubt you're seriously looking, but... > The evaluation fee is US$185,000. Applicants will be required to pay a US$5,000 deposit fee per requested application slot when registering. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs...
- saaaaaam 4y agoI accidentally ended up running one of the new gTLD registries for a while. It’s a lot more than $185,000 - that’s just the ICANN application fee. It’s all the other stuff that surrounds running a registry that is expensive. Might be cheaper if it’s “private” registry but you’d probably be looking at as least as much again on top.
- jesterson 4y agothank you. Maybe you can help to narrow down the definition "a lot more" to some rough approximation so I can sense the number?
- saaaaaam 4y agoWe spent well over a million dollars on the various bits and pieces that were required to get set up - this was legals, consultancy fees, and all the paperwork and so on necessary to comply with the ICANN registry agreement terms, as well as our registry back end infrastructure provider - but that was for a registry selling domains to end users. That included putting a substantial sum in escrow for “registry continuity” - so if your registry goes bankrupt ICANN can ensure the registrants of domains are not left high and dry. A big part of my role was to try and moderate costs as much as possible because the registry owners had been talked into the whole project by a consultant who had convinced them that their particular registry was going to make them $100m a year in registrations and renewals. My job quickly became persuading them that spending $100k on some crazy thing was not going to achieve anything and trying to stop cash being burnt before they realised the whole thing was a crazy pipe dream. I don’t recall the terms for private registries, but I’m pretty sure the detail will be on the ICANN site somewhere. Searching for “private registry operating agreement” or something similar might surface the relevant documents.
- singlewind 4y agoNot surprised. His company own large portion of internet connectivity.
- jiveturkey 4y agowell it only costs a few hundred thousand. plus infrastructure. i’ve thought of doing it myself but it’s too frivolous
- aaaaaaaaata 4y agoNormally I'd never ask — but since you've brought it up: what's your background that this is even a realistic daydream?
- jiveturkey 4y agoi don’t understand the context of your question. do you mean, why do i have a few hundred thousand laying around?
- ZhangSWEFAANG 4y agoThat's what he means.
- toast0 4y agoThe application fees aren't that much. Lots of people have access to that kind of money, although it'd be pretty foolish to spend it on a TLD. If you were planning on selling domains from the TLD, you probably need a lot more money to set that up, but why would I let anybody else use .toast???
- r-w 4y ago“realistic daydream”? Did you go thesaurus-fishing for “practical idea”?
- ZhangSWEFAANG 4y agorealistic daydream != practical idea realistic daydream is like an oxymoron because it conveys the idea that it is unreasonable for most people, but practical for him.
- castrodd 4y agoYes, but does the domain even have anything on it?
- focusedone 4y agoNice flex
- dixie_land 4y agowait til you learn about his own forcefield https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_field https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Li%27s_field
- k_sze 4y agoStrictly speaking, Li’s Field is (was?) his dad’s. Not sure whether Richard inherited it, and even if he did, whether he has mastered it to the same level as his dad. BTW, the Wikipedia article says “repels” tropical cyclones, but that seems not entirely accurate according to the latest “theory”: the field can also attract cyclones if Li Ka-shing deems it advantageous to his wealth - e.g. if the Hang Seng Index is dropping and Li wants to put a quick halt to the drop (as a typhoon signal no. 8 would force the stock exchange to close early). :P
- netsharc 4y agoI wonder if Liechtenstein would agree to sell their TLD, in exchange for someone paying for the administration of their governmental domains...
- Kurtose 4y agoThe more relevant question is if US would agree to sell their TLDs in exchange for Liechtenstein paying for administration of _their_ governmental domains. Look up Liechtenstein GDP & wealth per capita.