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ICANN 1174 TLDs Registry Listings

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Small data sources like this I find are fun to explore from the terminal with Visidata [1]. Just run:

vd https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/listing-2012-02-25-en

Makes it easy to find TLDs owned by Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. What years had the biggest expansion (2014).

Now I'm wondering why there were no new ones added in 2020? (I guess Covid-19 was so bad.)

[1] https://www.visidata.org/

Does anyone know the initial and ongoing cost of getting your own TLD?

I think I remember years ago reading it was $200,000 initial cost, but I don't think I saw a recurring fee mentioned at the time.

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

If I understand correctly, $185.000 and the costs to keep the infrastructure running.

There are a lot more in the way of costs than simply the application fee - which in the last round was $185k. For example you need to stick a significant amount of cash into an escrow account to guarantee the continuity of the registry if you go bust or walk away. I think we had to put in something like $200k.

Developing all the registry documentation is also hugely costly.

If you’re running an open gTLD chance are you initial set up costs are around $1m.

I ran a registry for a while on behalf of some investors who had been sold a pig in a poke.

Thanks - appreciate it!

$1mm is a bit further moves that plan a bit further down the pipeline then..

Does anyone know what's up with the "xn--*" TLDs? e.g. xn--pssy2u

I didn't know TLDs could have dashes or maybe I'm misunderstanding these.

Any domain that contains a letter in a language-specific alphabet other than English, such as Chinese, Arabic, Japanese, Russian, Tamil, Chinese or a Latin alphabet using a character with an accents, such as Spanish, Danish or French. These are stored in the Domain Name System as ascii strings using an endcoding mechanism called Punycode.

So the domain fênêtre.com translates to xn--fentre-kva.com in punnycode.

All encoded domains form an ascii string starting xn-- but when displayed in a browser, display in their native language alphabet.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punycode

Phishing is going to be so much easier soon, awesome.

It seems incomplete, I don't see .io

Looks like it is a country code: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.io

That list is for generic top-level domains. .IO is, like all two-letter TLDs, a country code TLD. Country code TLDs are allocated according to ISO-3166 two-letter codes. IO is the ISO-3166 code for British Indian Ocean Territory.

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