ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

Fri Jun 27 00:48:08 UTC 2008

Ah, but some are ... for trademark or brand protection usually.
I know _one_ company that paid $140k just for domain names related to a
rebranding effort.

/TJ

-----Original Message-----
From: Brandon Butterworth [mailto:brandon at rd.bbc.co.uk] 
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 6:59 PM
To: nanog at nanog.org
Subject: Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs

> And no, companies *aren't* "forced to pay for another domain name" 
> just because a new TLD appears -- they aren't doing it *now*