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<br class=""><div style=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 18, 2015, at 11:12 AM, Niels ten Oever <<a href="mailto:lists@DIGITALDISSIDENTS.ORG" class="">lists@DIGITALDISSIDENTS.ORG</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br class="">Hash: SHA1<br class=""><br class="">ICANN.[anydomain] cannot be registered because there is a reserved<br class="">name list that is called out in the contract between every registry an<br class="">ICANN. I just found this out yesterday myself :)<br class=""><br class="">Best,<br class=""><br class="">Niels<br class=""><br class="">On 03/18/2015 06:08 PM, Carlos Afonso wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">I wonder if icann.sucks has already been preemptively registered?<br class="">:-)<br class=""><br class="">--c.a.<br class=""><br class="">On 18-03-15 12:21, Nicolas Adam wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Yes we (I) do, and unlimited freedom to create gTLDs should<br class=""><br class="">1) tell the suckers (there is no reason to sugar coat this) that<br class="">you can't buy yourself out of criticism<br class=""><br class="">and<br class=""><br class="">2) prevent exorbitant prices for users who want to gleefully spew<br class="">on their most hatred brand of product.<br class=""><br class="">So, yes. It's not only considered, it's the basis for my support<br class="">for unlimited gTLDs.<br class=""><br class="">Nicolas<br class=""><br class="">On 16/03/2015 12:32 PM, Carlos A. Afonso wrote:<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">Do we consider this type of scam when some (most?) of us defend<br class="">absolute freedom for creating new gTLDs?<br class=""><br class="">--c.a.<br class=""><br class="">-------- Forwarded Message -------- Subject: [ PFIR ]<br class="">Extortion runs wild on .sucks gTLD Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2015<br class="">08:28:08 -0700 From: PFIR (People For Internet Responsibility)<br class="">Announcement List <<a href="mailto:pfir@pfir.org" class="">pfir@pfir.org</a>> Reply-To: PFIR (People For<br class="">Internet Responsibility) Announcement List <<a href="mailto:pfir@pfir.org" class="">pfir@pfir.org</a>> To:<br class=""><a href="mailto:pfir-list@pfir.org" class="">pfir-list@pfir.org</a><br class=""><br class="">Extortion runs wild on .sucks gTLD<br class=""><br class="">".sucks" registrations begin soon--at up to $2,500 per domain<br class=""><br class="">(Ars): <br class="">http://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2015/03/sucks-tld-to-accept-sunrise-registrations-soon-but-theyll-be-pricey/<br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote></blockquote>The number of generic top-level domains (gTLDs) available for<br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><blockquote type="cite" class="">use has climbed into the hundreds, and ".sucks" will soon be<br class="">added to the list. However, angry customers eager to get their<br class="">hands on brand-specific domains like "bestbuy.sucks" or<br class="">"comcast.sucks" shouldn't get their hopes up; according to<br class="">MarketingLand, the domains will cost far more than most<br class="">consumers will want to pay. The pricing situation around<br class="">.sucks domain names is complicated. Companies with registered<br class="">trademarks will have to pay an astounding $2,499 to register<br class="">their trademarked names in .sucks. Registration of <br class="">non-trademarked names during the "sunrise" period (March 30 <br class="">until June 1) before .sucks goes live will cost at least $199<br class="">per name, while the standard registration fee after June 1<br class="">rises to $249 per name.<br class=""><br class="">Companies are typically hyper-sensitive about brand usage, and <br class="">few will want their .sucks domains under someone else's<br class="">control. The .sucks pricing scheme has led to outrage from many<br class="">quarters, with MarketingLand's writeup quoting several industry<br class="">figures who use words like "extortion" and "predatory."<br class=""><br class="">- - -<br class=""><br class="">This is one of the best examples I know of demonstrating how<br class="">the gTLD expansion has turned into one giant extortion scheme<br class="">for the enrichment of "domainers" and the rest of the<br class="">domain-industrial complex -- and to the detriment of the Net at<br class="">large. As far as the overwhelmingly vast majority of new gTLDs<br class="">is concerned, I've seen nothing from them but spam and phishing<br class="">attempts, and I block them from my networks with zero sense of<br class="">shame and without any obvious detrimental effects here.<br class="">Personally, I recommend that you do the same.<br class=""><br class="">--Lauren-- Lauren Weinstein (<a href="mailto:lauren@vortex.com" class="">lauren@vortex.com</a>):<br class=""><a href="http://www.vortex.com/lauren" class="">http://www.vortex.com/lauren</a> Founder: - Network Neutrality<br class="">Squad: <a href="http://www.nnsquad.org" class="">http://www.nnsquad.org</a> - PRIVACY Forum:<br class=""><a href="http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info" class="">http://www.vortex.com/privacy-info</a> Co-Founder: People For<br class="">Internet Responsibility: <a href="http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info" class="">http://www.pfir.org/pfir-info</a> Member:<br class="">ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy Lauren's Blog:<br class=""><a href="http://lauren.vortex.com" class="">http://lauren.vortex.com</a> Google+:<br class=""><a href="http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein" class="">http://google.com/+LaurenWeinstein</a> Twitter:<br class=""><a href="http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein" class="">http://twitter.com/laurenweinstein</a> Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 /<br class="">Skype: <a href="http://vortex.com" class="">vortex.com</a><br class=""><br class="">_______________________________________________ pfir mailing<br class="">list <a href="http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir" class="">http://lists.pfir.org/mailman/listinfo/pfir</a><br class=""></blockquote><br class=""></blockquote></blockquote><br class="">- -- <br class="">Niels ten Oever<br class="">Head of Digital<br class=""><br class="">Article 19<br class=""><a href="http://www.article19.org" class="">www.article19.org</a><br class=""><br class="">PGP fingerprint 8D9F C567 BEE4 A431 56C4<br class=""> 678B 08B5 A0F2 636D 68E9<br class="">-----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE-----<br class="">Version: GnuPG v1.4.12 (GNU/Linux)<br class=""><br class="">iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJVCbHuAAoJEAi1oPJjbWjpJ0QH/i0gdvRCQIaRY3/T4ZKa8/h/<br class="">+2HJT7dvJSBCb+/Y8nFrIyyehYww/BfYO8QAOht3W0rq+apeWXiiN7BTXyuKg7Gl<br class="">vFbuEGLc9U7qtaawgTk1aUu/FBNIeCjqEw+BPVLHVW5THVh53dMgLyk4Btk4oWPs<br class="">2wtoMLN10lVU+80z7N/x3xWWeZHu2I00lGIBTqo+e7Kob7GCSUfCkivLUIF0cbIM<br class="">2coHNTb6DISqiYmhGzzNY68VwzkzRBT4tOy0yk0YTQ0WKHgdLEHlwlBZc4FuCrCs<br class="">fnUM6w9fipFhw9xSsUIhJ7BarmscxNkyjkdpRyrPrRsZggmRLaofnYAOxv2uKCc=<br class="">=2TfJ<br class="">-----END PGP SIGNATURE-----<br class=""></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>