> There's no reason why .eat, .here or .ads have to be exclusive to Google People underestimate what it takes to launch a TLD, even for someone like Google. I

> There's no reason why .eat, .here or .ads have to be exclusive to Google People underestimate what it takes to launch a TLD, even for someone like Google. I own a registrar and get weekly emails from smaller registries begging me to promote their latest launch on our homepage. It is a huge financial and manpower burden, so I don't fault them for staggering the launches. Blame ICANN for restricting all applications to a specific window and forcing everyone to front-load grabbing them all. There is no reason newgTLD applications couldn't be open right now if I wanted .hackernews