Ask HN: new top level domains?
In a couple of months there are going to be 700 new TLD's. The first ones are already live. Yet, there is little or no discussion of this on HN and the blogosphere. Why? Isn't this a significant change of the internet?
This, I suppose, means each registrar plan to make a little more than a few thousands for each domain extension if they want to be profitable. They know already it's not going to be a widespread phenomena, otherwise the greedy bunch running ICANN would've charged a lot more.
Still I don't understand why the internet top-level domain control is in the hands of a private and fake non-profit organization, instead of being directly controlled by an international, third party organism such as the United Nations or something similar.
[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47031-icann-selling-custom-top-...