http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/12/04/icann_new_gtlds.html Musings of a techie lawyer Mon, 01 Dec 2008 18:58:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7-bleeding http://wendy.seltzer.org/blog/archives/2006/12/04/icann_new_gtlds.html#comment-566 Fazal Majid Tue, 05 Dec 2006 05:40:47 +0000 http://wendy.seltzer.org/wordpress/?p=379#comment-566 Extra gTLDs are basically the way ICANN mints money for registrars by creating new virtual real estate, and hoping companies will register domains like ibm.foobar just to avoid the protracted legal battles of confronting cybersquatters. That said, most people have wised up to this racket - the new gTLDs like .aero represent less than 0.1% of .com or .net. Extra gTLDs are basically the way ICANN mints money for registrars by creating new virtual real estate, and hoping companies will register domains like ibm.foobar just to avoid the protracted legal battles of confronting cybersquatters. That said, most people have wised up to this racket - the new gTLDs like .aero represent less than 0.1% of .com or .net.

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