Re: off topic, Request for Whitelisting or Spam Score Adjustment for our TDL Domain

[John Levine <jo...@taugh.com>]

It appears that John Hardin <jh...@impsec.org> said:
>> PS: If this leads to questions like "what exactly was the point of the thousand new TLDs?"
>> you're not the only one asking.
>
>ICANN monetizing their product. Period.

Actually, if you look at ICANN's finances, they're retrenching because
the new TLDs have mostly been a failure. There's a huge one-time pot
of unexpected money from domain auctions, but they've promised to give
it away. Other than that, it's been at best meh, and over 100 of the
vanity TLDs have tried it, decided they were useless, and told ICANN
to turn them off.

The question of who, if anyone, is actually making money from them is
surprisingly hard to figure out.  None of this affects the fact that no
matter who might or might not be profiting, they were a bad idea.

R's,
John

PS: Replies somewhere other than the SA list, please.

Re: off topic, Request for Whitelisting or Spam Score Adjustment for our TDL Domain

["Kirill A. Korinsky" <ki...@korins.ky>]

On Fri, 14 Feb 2025 10:59:11 +0100,
Marc <Ma...@f1-outsourcing.eu> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > Actually, if you look at ICANN's finances, they're retrenching because
> > the new TLDs have mostly been a failure. There's a huge one-time pot
> > of unexpected money from domain auctions, but they've promised to give
> > it away. Other than that, it's been at best meh, and over 100 of the
> > vanity TLDs have tried it, decided they were useless, and told ICANN
> > to turn them off.
> > 
> 
> Interesting, did not know about this. I tried to find something and was
> actually surprised this .xyz is sold so much. I have never seen anything
> but crap coming from that .xyz.

It is cheap. Very cheap. You may buy .xyz domain for less than $1.

-- 
wbr, Kirill

RE: off topic, Request for Whitelisting or Spam Score Adjustment for our TDL Domain

[Marc <Ma...@f1-outsourcing.eu>]

> 
> Actually, if you look at ICANN's finances, they're retrenching because
> the new TLDs have mostly been a failure. There's a huge one-time pot
> of unexpected money from domain auctions, but they've promised to give
> it away. Other than that, it's been at best meh, and over 100 of the
> vanity TLDs have tried it, decided they were useless, and told ICANN
> to turn them off.
> 

Interesting, did not know about this. I tried to find something and was actually surprised this .xyz is sold so much. I have never seen anything but crap coming from that .xyz.