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the extortion part is heightened by the registrar for .sucks where it is asking organizations who own the trademark to pay 2500/yr to get a domain name

• adwf 12y ago
  The possible upside is that if it's trademarked, no-one else should be to register the domain name either. However, that all depends on the rigourousness of the registrar...
  • aroch 12y ago
    Except that's not the case. The .sucks registrar is selling the trdemark-related domain for $10/y to someone who wants to criticize $Trademark, while it would cost $TrademarkCompany $2500/y. You can buy $yourname.sucks for $200/y, but someone who wants to criticize you can buy it for $10/y. Tiered pricing that charges more to people who aren't looking to disparage themselves is predatory.
    • nashashmi 12y ago
      > Tiered pricing that charges more to people who aren't looking to disparage themselves is predatory. Or its bribery to prevent free speech.
    • chii 12y ago
      it ought to be illegal to discriminate between buyers - it should either be open season auction, highest bidder wins, or a flat price for everything, but with trademark disputes process.
    • adwf 12y ago
      Ah, I didn't realise they had tiered pricing, I thought it was just $2500 across the board. I guess I must read the articles a bit more closely. I can't imagine that this will go well for the .sucks registrar in court - looks like plain extortion to me, although IANAL of course ;)
    • pjc50 12y ago
      That's hilarious. How did that get past the ICANN process?
      • mcguire 12y ago
        ICANN has a process? No, really, they're just making stuff up as they go along. The idea of this kind of "extortion" has been around for decades, since the early rounds of DNS root name expansion.
        • duskwuff 12y ago
          Sure they have a process! You pay them the $185k application fee, and you get your TLD. That's a process, right? /s
• normloman 12y ago
  Ah, yeah true. At least no one's forcing them to buy.
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