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These new tlds are a racket.

If you can, get access to czds.icann.org and look over the zone files for .ing and .meme.

No one is registering domains for anything other than trademark protection and speculative squatting.

A lot of money spent for nothing.




A lot of money is right! First word I tried is priced in the thousands!

> trash.ing

> Your domain is available!

> Premium name

> 1,625.00 USD


Pfft that's mere chump change.

`sell.ing` is available for the princely sum of €103,510.57


drugdeal.ing was cheap, though...


> A lot of money spent for nothing.

Unfortunately, noth.ing appears to be taken.


Given that someth.ing is €3100 a year, it was probably very literally "a lot of money spent for noth.ing"


Is the CZDS open to individuals? I'd like to register and go over the files in an individual capacity, but seems like people have to send requests over to registry operators, which they may or may not grant.


You can register as an individual; but I believe they want a valid phone number and mailing address, and a reason for access.

The requests are mostly automatically approved but there are some outliers who take weeks to approve or will reject the request without more info like faxing an ID.

Requests for all these new TLDs sponsored by Google seem to be approved instantly for what it's worth.


TBH, i enjoy it. Or rather, i sort of wish domains didn't exist - and the flood of these names helps devalue the entire land. Or so i ignorantly assume.

Is there a problem i'm not seeing?


The most annoying thing about them, that's seemed to increase over time, is that for 'premium' names the renewals are the same cost as 'buying' the domain.

At least if you manage to snag a .com/.net/etc, you'll have low yearly renewal fees.


somebody registered squatt.ing


any way to get the list and prices of all the "premium" domains that are not registered but have a custom (high) price to register/renew?


Capitalism breeds innovation. /s


Good thinking comrade. Enjoy people's glorious RusNet that is most popular.




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