[fbnt]

To get a glimpse of the impact of this new TLDs you can just look at how much ICANN charged the registrars 'cartel' to open up this new top level names: 185K for each name [1].

This, I suppose, means each registrar plan to make a little more than a few thousands for each domain extension if they want to be profitable. They know already it's not going to be a widespread phenomena, otherwise the greedy bunch running ICANN would've charged a lot more.

Still I don't understand why the internet top-level domain control is in the hands of a private and fake non-profit organization, instead of being directly controlled by an international, third party organism such as the United Nations or something similar.

[1] http://www.techspot.com/news/47031-icann-selling-custom-top-...

[bachback]

very interesting, didn't know about the 185k. Why fake non-profit? I think the whole thing is quite a mess, and there is very little analysis.