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This extended TLDs are the biggest scam ICANN ever pulled. Huge money grab for companies to buy more to defend their brands.
by nvk 12y ago
This extended TLDs are the biggest scam ICANN ever pulled. Huge money grab for companies to buy more to defend their brands.
- romaniv 12y agoAnd before someone says you're wrong: if it wasn't a scam and if it was a genuine effort to expand the available domain name space, those would be different domain names, rolled out in a different manner, in a different time frame. What they are doing is perfect for driving up prices through hype and corporate anxiety. It benefits squatters more than anyone else. I am not even sure this benefits large corporations. But public at large - definitely not. What is the public benefit of having somename.app instead of somename.app.com? Does it justify $25M pricetag?
- jessaustin 12y agoWhat percentage of companies are dumb enough to buy domains on these new tlds purely "to defend their brands"? Is Walmart going to buy "walmart.diamonds" and "walmart.condos"? I doubt it, but whatever, I'm not sad that there is a new tax on corporate stupidity.
- romaniv 12y agoI think the parent speaks about stuff like microsoft.app. (Which, IMO, should be .apps, plural.)
- jessaustin 12y ago.apps, plural. Seems like a perfectly cromulent TLD. b^) One of Google's competitors should file with ICANN right away!
- WorldWideWayne 12y agoSystems where new resources can be created out of thin air for a relatively low cost are eminently corruptible. It's a license to print money.