[apple4ever]

Because it costs so much to add a new gTLD /sarcasm

[notahacker]

It certainly reduces the likelihood of everyone and their uncle putting in requests to bag a few gTLDs for themselves...

[C1sc0cat]

Its not cheap you have to commit to very high up times with massive redundancy eg survive continent failure

[55555]

Does ICANN pay for that infra though or do you? Because if ICANN doesn't pay I don't see how that's relevant.

[C1sc0cat]

No the registry does that for real TLD's - this isn't a vanity domain like .sony