ICANN planning major changes in 2012

[futuretaster]

So it looks like the new GTLD expansion is going to happen around 2012.

Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, is planning on a dramatic rewriting of the rules for Web addresses that could demote .com's importance

GTLDs could help people launch Web sites using a family name even if the .com version is taken

http://news.cnet.com/8301-30685_3-20019282-264.html

 

[Venga]

"those who want a GTLD of their own must apply to ICANN. And it's expensive: table stakes are $185,000 for the application fee and $25,000 a year to operate the registry. If someone else wants the domain, bidding will determine the winner. And another fee will crop up when a registry is setting up secondary domains on a top-level domain: the first 50,000 are free, but they will cost 25 cents apiece after that."

"When people start seeing GTLDs arrive?
"I think 2012 at the earliest, Valente said.""

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"If someone else wants the domain, bidding will determine the winner."

Doubtful big brands will like or accept that procedure.

 

[Blake]

2 words -- Cash Grab.....

Nonprofit my A**!!

Anyhow just another money maker for them and another headache for the trademark holders quite honestly.

 

[Name Trader]

I agree usualcliche.

 

[silentg]

.COM would still be #1 no matter what.

 

[Archangel]

...who cares? The world's gonna end in 2012, anyway.

 

[gazzip]

2 words -- Cash Grab.....

Nonprofit my A**!!

Anyhow just another money maker for them and another headache for the trademark holders quite honestly.

For sure, I guess their luxury lifestyle is'nt meeting their expectations


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[labrocca]

The only people that care are domainers. This doesn't effect anyone else.

 

[Blake]

The only people that care are domainers. This doesn't effect anyone else.

So this doesn't affect trademark holders at all? I bet you money it will very soon honestly and what about all the mom/pop shops that can't afford to foot 185K+ other fees associated with this nonsense?

I bet you this will effect domainers less then them honestly. For us it's competition to our own stakes in other extensions. To them it's competition to keep the lights and employees paid etc.

I honestly disagree with your statement and really wonder how you figure it will only effect domainers...Care to explain a bit more about your view?

 

[labrocca]

TM holders that care already have things in place to fight infringment or are large enough companies that they have a firm on their payroll.

Sites are normally found from search engines. If my site has 10 registrations in different extensions I'll still be #1 because I have the best site. I can imagine if domains get wild that Google will start to devalue based on the extension which some already believe they do. CNO is still going to rule the market.

There will be some extra phishing and the usual sunrise BS but all this happens now anyways. I don't think it will multiply simple by adding more extensions. If 10 extensions are released a year or just 1 extension I think end result is pretty close to the same.

I also don't think this perceived explosion of new extensions is even going to happen. It's costly not just to setup but to continually run well. And are any of the new extensions really making a buttload of money. I think .info was the last decent one released. The rest have been lackluster and even mTLD sold off mobi because it was losing money too. And that had about a million registrations at one point.

Most domainers have already caught on to the gimmick sunrise registrations and as each one rolls out it will be less and less a success for everyone involved. Instead people will likely go back to CNO where it's stable, tried and true.

So you see...all this huffing and puffing about new extensions is going to all be meaningless.

 

[bizwiz]

This certainly would shake things up quite a bit.

 

[zems]

$185k + $25K is not to much if you register .con
Imagine how many typos you can have and amount of traffic which is all yours.

 

[Freshfroot]

$185k + $25K is not to much if you register .con
Imagine how many typos you can have and amount of traffic which is all yours.

smart idea... and I agree. I always have .con typos haha

 

[Archangel]

In most cases, all non com/net/org/info and ccTLDs are wasteful. I've never visited a .pro site nor have I ever seen one. I'm sure there is one but I've never seen it. Came with .aero, .museum, .cat etc etc etc. New extensions would benefit investors only -- assuming they found another investor to sell to.

 

[mwzd]

I don't think you can register any extensions which are too close to any issued extensions already, so no .con

I'm guessing about 20% of these new extensions will actually be profitable considering the startup costs and these will be hotly contested, so expect prices to close above $1mm in auction for popular extensions.

And there are no refunds afaik, if you don't get the extension you apply for, you're still out $200k or so, thus not a business for those who are risk averse at all.

 

[Archangel]

*ahem* .com / .co / .cm...

I don't think you can register any extensions which are too close to any issued extensions already

 

[mwzd]

.com is a gtld, .co is columbian cctld, .cm is cameroonian cctld

These will be stlds, like .aero etc and none will be below 3 letters.

Plus this is what's going to happen here on in, not what's happening now.