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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by vaksel on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @03:12PM (#1615237)
those people can be on the free .web extension...or the .nets/.orgs. The new pricing would only apply to .coms.

as far as where money goes, infrastructure improvement.

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Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a... by nanairo on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @03:23PM (#1615274)
It also could go to subsidies the free (or cheap) extensions.

For example: .com could cost 15$ instead of 7$, but .net could go from 7$ to 3$ or even less.

Yes, you would end up with Internet ghettos, and "high-street" areas, but given it's only the extension, and a .com address is not really surrounded by other .com addresses, then it's not such a bad thing.

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