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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