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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 c
by 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 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