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[Alex Hanselka <alex AT opennicproject.org>]

On 7/14/2013 1:17 AM, Alex Hanselka wrote:
> On 7/13/2013 10:44 PM, Alex M (Coyo) wrote:
>> Have you guys heard about this, yet?
>>
>> There's even https://www.gandi.net/domain/gtld/gay/news/
>>
>> Why is ICANN suddenly flooding the market with massive numbers of gTLDs?
>>
>> The official information can be found here:
>>
>> http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/benefits-risks
>>
>> This is fantastic, and I don't mean in a good way.
>>
> Yeah, they announced it ages ago and the new ones are probably coming
> out soon (September I think?).   There are good and bad parts in my
> opinion.  The main bad part is the cost prohibitiveness of getting one. 
> They charge LOADS of money for an application and more loads if you want
> to contest an application.  For instance FREE and ING are likely going
> to be TLDs now (maybe not ING, copyrighted) and there is no way for us
> to combat it because it costs thousands of dollars to file an appeal.  
> I think it would not be a bad thing if it was a more open and
> approachable process.  After all, OpenNIC doesn't have any limit to
> TLDs, though we do vote on them. 
>
> I'm not opposed to new TLDs but there must be a better way.
>
> In any case, it isn't like we have any say in the matter regardless.  We
> can only keep on with our project and fight the good fight. :)
>
Sorry for the second post.  I'd like to add that many many of the TLDs
are brand names because these companies feel like they need to protect
that from squatters and the like. We will see the real numbers but I bet
80% or more of those will never be used.