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It would have been pretty impressive if they created a whole gTLD just for an April Fools joke.
by pimlottc 12y ago
It would have been pretty impressive if they created a whole gTLD just for an April Fools joke.
- random_passerby 12y agoindeed because "The evaluation fee is US$185,000." http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faqs/faqs-en http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...
- huxley 12y agoI wouldn't be so sure they wouldn't do that, after all: http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel-google-idUSTRE76104L20110702 http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/07/02/us-dealtalk-nortel... "At the auction for Nortel Networks' wireless patents this week, Google's bids were mystifying, such as $1,902,160,540 and $2,614,972,128. Math whizzes might recognize these numbers as Brun's constant and Meissel-Mertens constant, but it puzzled many of the people involved in the auction, according to three people with direct knowledge of the situation on Friday. ... 'It became clear that they were bidding with the distance between the earth and the sun. One was the sum of a famous mathematical constant, and then when it got to $3 billion, they bid pi,' the source said, adding the bid was $3.14159 billion. 'Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.'"
- sukilot 12y agoMotivation for changing the low order digits is different from the high order digits.
- huxley 12y agoNot to nitpick but the lower order digits in those bids are orders of magnitude higher than the US$185,000 evaluation fee.
- AnkhMorporkian 12y ago> 'Either they were supremely confident or they were bored.' Those usually go hand in hand.
- pimlottc 12y ago> ICANN GTLD APPLICATION FORM > > 1. Purpose of TLD > > It would be funny.