It appears that John Hardin <jhar...@impsec.org> said: >> PS: If this leads to questions like "what exactly was the point of the >> thousand new TLDs?" >> you're not the only one asking. > >ICANN monetizing their product. Period.
Actually, if you look at ICANN's finances, they're retrenching because the new TLDs have mostly been a failure. There's a huge one-time pot of unexpected money from domain auctions, but they've promised to give it away. Other than that, it's been at best meh, and over 100 of the vanity TLDs have tried it, decided they were useless, and told ICANN to turn them off. The question of who, if anyone, is actually making money from them is surprisingly hard to figure out. None of this affects the fact that no matter who might or might not be profiting, they were a bad idea. R's, John PS: Replies somewhere other than the SA list, please.
