I have mixed feelings about this. I can see some value in some new TLDs. But the whole .xxx debacle (aka extortion scheme) left me hesitant to support willy-nil

I have mixed feelings about this. I can see some value in some new TLDs. But the whole .xxx debacle (aka extortion scheme) left me hesitant to support willy-nilly creation of more TLDs. When the .xxx TLD was being introduced, mark owners had first dibs at paying a totally ridiculous price to make sure they owned the .xxx version of their domain for fear it would be misused by someone else and tarnish their name. A cynical person might think this is just a way to extort money from companies that want to protect their brand.