[LINK] Top-level domains

[Robert Brockway]

A few years ago the ability to register a TLD was liberalised.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/global-support/faqs/faqs-en

The organisation applying to register a new TLD has to demonstrate the 
infrastructure and process to properly run a TLD and they have to lay a 
large amount of money on the table.  The application fee is US$185,000 and 
it just gets more expensive from there.

Cheers,

Rob

On Fri, 10 Mar 2017, David Lochrin wrote:

> Many Linkers are probably aware of this, but I happened to come across a 
> list of top-level domains and was amazed to find there must be hundreds 
> - see http://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt
>
> I know the <.sydney> TLD has been mentioned here before, but there's 
> even <.sex> & <.dad>!!  Who carries the responsibility for administering 
> these?  I naievely thought TLDs were only entrusted to authorities with 
> national scope and <.gifts> would be a second-level domain at least.
>
> The whole administrative structure seems to me to have been devalued. 
> Why not language-dependent TLDs, for example <.sex> and 
> <.geschlechtsverkehr>?
>
> David L.
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