For .sucks Web domains, the currency seems to be paid in reputations
http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/07/23/sleazy-internet-domain-sucks-up-the-bucks/
So far, about 6,000 .sucks addresses have been sold, according
to the research site Namestat.org. But only a couple dozen
websites with the .sucks domain address are live on the
Internet, suggesting most were purchased just to keep them off
the air forever. The .sucks addresses available to the public
went on sale in June, at around $200 per year. Berard is
looking to command a premium for 500 particularly repellent
addresses: Christianity.sucks is available at $50.000; just the
thing for arch-atheist Richard Dawkins, or the Pope. Whichever
check clears first. Meanwhile, there is little demand for
hundreds of other new domains that ICANN created, including .zip
or .dad or .eat. ICANN had predicted some 33 million buyers
would queue up for the new domains by mid-2015; so far it's sold
just 6.7 million addresses.
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It's just simple extortion. And the garbage pile of most new gTLDs,
quickly overloaded with spam and phishes and being widely blocked, have
done little except increase the value of dot-com domains!
--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein ([email protected]): http://www.vortex.com/lauren
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