On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:12 PM, Scott Weeks <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > < careful there may be a troll in here... :) > > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.nyc > > "As of July 2, 2013, .nyc has been approved by ICANN as a > city-level top-level domain (TLD) for New York City" > .nyc has been approved by ICANN May 24. The city made its announcement only today. Link to evaluation report: http://newgtlds.icann.org/sites/default/files/ier/f3T5ufeSpeThAJezaxezuDtE/ie-1-1715-21938-en.pdf Link to all status information: https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applicationstatus/viewstatus > > As places like that see $186,000 as small change, I wonder > what other countries (much less the cities within them) > like .nu, .sb or .vu will do? For them this is an > astronomical number. Someone's about to hit a financial > home run reminiscient of the tech-stock bubble... > No countries were obliged to apply. Both country codes and country names were excluded from the new gTLD process. Actually, they couldn't even apply, as they are considered ccTLDs. > I haven't read enough, but what's to stop speculators > paying the $186,000 then charging the tiny countries > mors when they are able to make the purchase? Please > don't suggest arbitration because that only increases > the cost to those countries. > > Who's going to buy .nanog? > No one in this round. May be in the next one. > Who's going to buy .ietf? > No one, excluded from the process by ICANN. > etc. > Did icann have any financial requirements to get .icann? > .icann also wasn't available for application. Rubens
