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Which just outlines how it is a money-grab for existing property owners. Yet another stupid vanity domain you're forced to add to your portfolio!
by pdntspa 3y ago
Which just outlines how it is a money-grab for existing property owners. Yet another stupid vanity domain you're forced to add to your portfolio!
- marcus_holmes 3y agoI wonder if we're at the point that the costs of registering a new TLD are immediately recouped from the set of large businesses that must register their name in every TLD?
- Ayesh 3y agoI was thinking about this too. Some TLDs look like an obvious obligatory money grab (such as .download), so companies are compelled to buy it. I have seen some TLDs owned by a company and didn't even bother to set a redirect. My anecdote is that the ICANN annual fee ($25k) is easily covered by these obligatory registrations and the premium domains. The cost of running nameservers aren't that high. NS1 has an offering, but it's impossible to find their pricing for anything.