No, this is ~2000 TLD applications. We have no idea how many of those will ICANN approve.
But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.
My point wasn't that they won't sell domains, but that many or most won't sell them to any random shmoe like .com/.net/etc are sold, but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege, which doesn't describe scammers.
>but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege
Here's to hoping you're right.
Though, I doubt anybody would be surprised to find the bar vastly lower than you expect--especially when it comes time for these purchasers to recover some of the cost and find these fields are smaller than anticipated.
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This is ~2,000 new TLD's.
No, this is ~2000 TLD applications. We have no idea how many of those will ICANN approve.
But many of these new TLD's have been applied for by entities who plan on sub-letting the TLD to others.
My point wasn't that they won't sell domains, but that many or most won't sell them to any random shmoe like .com/.net/etc are sold, but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege, which doesn't describe scammers.
Fair point about the approval.
>but only to businesses in the fields and how are willing to pay a lot more for the privilege
Here's to hoping you're right.
Though, I doubt anybody would be surprised to find the bar vastly lower than you expect--especially when it comes time for these purchasers to recover some of the cost and find these fields are smaller than anticipated.