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Crawford Sausage Company <mea@brandylion.com> wrote:

> What kind of companies are buying them?  I have yet to see a link in
> that namespace during any of my web browsing so far.  There might be 
> value in buying up a TLD like .sucks so you can ransom off those 
> domain names to anyone and everyone.

It's just for speculation purposes.

I dunno who is pocketing the money but from what I understand, if you wanted
to create the .eatme top level domain, you pony up $200,000 and fill out an
application, icann posts it, if there are no others interested, after 6
months, you get the privledge to start selling those domains. If there are
others interested, it goes into some kind of closed-bid auction where you
have to blindly add in another $50k or whatever you think is more than the
other guy wants to pay. 

Whoever "wins" now have to file how the domains are going to be sold. What
they are going to do with trademark/copyright problems, initial fees to
register, renewal fees. It's easy to say, I'll just sell 20,000 at $10 each,
but very few have met that number (.ninja, .buzz, .club and .xyz seem to be
the most popular) and then they find out after a year, very few renew them.

So they start getting creative, early on there was a .rich or .luxury, they
were going to charge like $10,000 to register then $1000 a year in renewal
fees to keep it, "exclusive" is how they marketed it. Think they got a total
of 8 idiots (and 4 of those seemed to be the owner) and probably abandoned
it.

Another one(s) was .aids or .hiv, maybe $200 in fees but half or most of it
was supposed to go to research, they figured the big corps would register
like apple.aids or microsoft.aids, "just to show they care". Think the
numbers on that one was around 200.

That one for .sucks has been a target of lawsuits even before it was
launched. Some tld's have this "sunrise period" where for more money you can
register a domain name before it's released to the great unwashed masses.
Maybe the sunrise price was $2000 or $5000, when released $100 or
something.

Same logic there, it panics the major companies to pony up and pay for
apple.sucks or walmart.sucks before some snot nosed kid does so it appears
to be an extortion plot of sorts.

There isn't any need for any of these, it just became some kind of stock
market like business. Create a demand where none was before and rake in the
profits.

Or try to.

-bruce
bje@ripco.com

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