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Who actually are they buying this from? ICANN? Or some other TLD suppliers?

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> Who actually are they buying this from? ICANN?

Yes. ICANN is auctioning the new gTLDs, and Google won the auction for .app.

TLD squatters. Same exact problem as before, just more expensive.

http://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/customer-service/faq...

what, you can just tld squat? (without founding a nation)?

How is that not like squatting on all domain names that start with an "a"? I mean, how can it be technically possible.

Did some guy just pay 20 bucks for the .app tld and ICANN was like, cool, nobody has registered this one yet - you can have it?

I think the minimum price for setting up a TLD is tens of thousands of dollars, and it doesn't have to be a country it can be any kind of string, like .pepsi or .beef or anything.

I think the minimum price for setting up a TLD is tens of thousands of dollars

Almost $200k, actually, and that's just the fee to present the request; you'll still have to have the infrastructure to actually run the root DNS servers for your TLD(s).

You mean 2 x $5 VPS won't be enough?

Quick, someone register .pepsi and .coke then do nothing with them until either company pays you... of wait, we're right back at the domain squatting thing again?

No, because it's not an open registration process. it's an application process, and if you or i tried to acquire the .pepsi TLD it would be denied outright (and our $185k application fee would be forfeit).

New gTLDs (like .app) which receive multiple applications and have no clear owner are opened to an auction among the qualified applicants. Other more specific applications are given to the most qualified applicant (for example, i know the applicant for .ski has been endorsed by the USSA and FIS, the american and international governing bodies for skiing)

$185,000 just to apply. If multiple parties applied, the gltd gets sent to auction.

https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...

No, nobody was squatting .app. Icann auctioned it, google won the auction.

ah, makes sense. (parent explicitly said "TLD squatters. Same exact problem as before, just more expensive.") obviously doubt Google qualifies as a squatter.

Yeah, I don't know what the parent is on about, they're completely wrong. Nobody is squatting TLDs, all the new ones have gone to orgs actively working as registrars.

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