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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 th
by 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 agoExcept 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 agoit 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 agoAh, 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 agoThat's hilarious. How did that get past the ICANN process?
- mcguire 12y agoICANN 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 agoSure they have a process! You pay them the $185k application fee, and you get your TLD. That's a process, right? /s