Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a...
by ohashi on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @10:04PM
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That's a silly argument. .com isn't yours or mine. It's everyones. Why don't you go register .US? Bringing ccTLDs only clouds this even more (and ICANN doesn't have control of them).
ICANN doesn't do anything themselves, it's all done by registrties, udrp providers, etc. ICANN is also supposed to be a non-profit, raising the fees for an arbitrary purpose serves who?
Re:Domains are inefficiently priced -- small domain owners a...
by BrandonM on Wednesday August 18, 2010 @04:56PM
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This is getting way off topic, but...
> Yes I overdid it with the TB...but that's because I usually get it for 2 people.
Where do you live and who do you eat with? I can feed like 8 people for $20 at Taco Bell here in Columbus, OH
ICANN manages the fees so they can make them whatever they want...no?
If $7 is expensive for someone...they can just get a non .com name. Your blog that gets 5 visitors a day, will work just as fine on a .net. Same for businesses. If you can't afford $240/yr then you are probably not serious enough about your venture. So your third world startups can just stick on their country's domain name...or get a .net or do the whole start.ups type name.
Yes I overdid it with the TB...but that's because I usually get it for 2 people.