Bill Nash wrote: > Off the top of my head, I can see some high dollar fist fights breaking > out for .sex, .porn, .games, .hotel, etc. It'll be like the .alt tree on > usenet for people with money. There may also be an actual fist fight over > TLDs like .irc, .leet, .goatse, and .krad. Maybe not .krad.
Say I am a pastry chef, and I pay $40 per year for "pastry.com", I got it because I signed up early and now cherish my domain name. I am a small business. But now, some rich guy can come in and bid for .pastry I have no money to participate in this endeavour, and no intentions of running my own TLD. All I can do is voice an objection, but if the other guy is also involved in food, he is likely to convince ICANN's comittees that it is a legitimate request. Then you end up with pastry.com being the original small business, and .pastry being anything else. This will lead to a lot of confusion. Yeah, for guys with deep pockets like yahoo, google, banks, GE and oil companies, they won't even notice a dent in their wallets when they register their own .TLD . For small businesses who worked early to get THEY name attached to a .com, they now see the value of their domain name evaporate because anyone else can now use a confusing variation of it and you just don't have the money to bid/auction against them I didn't have the time to carefully read all the documents that were pointed to here, but are there any requirements for a TLD to operate a true WHOIS server so people can easily verify the indetity of some site using a new .TLD ? (aka: to enable people to see that pastry.com is the original shop, while www.pastry is some impostor who started a pastry shop that is unrelated to pastry.com)
