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Was there something you read that indicated that what they did wasn't allowed? No kidding, private entities bid on, to buy, new gTLDs. Did the author assume th
by drivebyacct2 14y ago
Was there something you read that indicated that what they did wasn't allowed?
No kidding, private entities bid on, to buy, new gTLDs. Did the author assume that they would pay for them and then have to offer them up as a public good?
- ferringham 14y agoSo when the public regulates the Internet via their elected officials it is bad (a.k.a "socialism"). But when private corporations regulate to merely secure their monopolistic position, that's "no kidding" ? With history of 2008 bank bail-outs you should have known better.
- ceol 14y agoI think the author assumed ICANN wouldn't allow private entities to bid on new, generic TLDs.
- wmf 14y agoNo, we assumed that whoever owned .blog would sell subdomains at a reasonable profit to anyone who wants one. But now we learn that maybe only Blogger users will be able to use .blog. I can understand why they wouldn't sell subdomains of a brand name like .google, but for generic word TLDs we were assuming it would run like .com. Turns out there's no such restriction in the process AFAIK, and now it's too late to complain about a loophole that we didn't foresee.