Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/02/25

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Subject: [Leica] OT: new top level domains
From: photo at frozenlight.eu (Nathan Wajsman)
Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2014 07:57:14 +0100
References: <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E68C4C4C@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org>, <29448798-2666-4F52-8499-E0A469D8D00D@gmail.com> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E68C6205@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org> <80F9701439F20347874CE5E4E03C22E9E68C6488@WhizzMAIL01.whizz.org>

It IS very much a money-making exercise for ICANN and for the registrars. 
The latter have to pay a fairly substantial amount to the former to register 
one of the new top-level domains, which they recoup by selling subdomains. 
Also a major headache for brand owners who now are forced to become 
registrars, in effect, to avoid that others register their names as 
top-level domains and then do strange things, e.g. shit.nestle.

Cheers,

Nathan

On 26 Feb 2014, at 07:46, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> wrote:

> Looks like a lot of bulk speculation buying is going on :-( I registered 
> that domain a couple of days ago and the only registered johnmcmaster ones 
> were .com (mine) and .co. Since then 18 other johnmcmaster TLDs have been 
> registered while all original ones are still available...
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> 
> 
> I got it through the UK registrar I use, www.easily.co.uk
> 
> john
> ________________________________________
> 
> John,
> Where did you go to register?
> Thanks,
> Bob
> 
> Sent from my iPad
> 
>> On Feb 25, 2014, at 10:17 PM, John McMaster <john at mcmaster.co.nz> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> The .photography domains are now available....
>> 
>> http://www.johnmcmaster.photography
>> 
>> And just to show that it is not a money making exercise:
>> 
>> 5th March - .photos
>> 
>> 21st April - .photo
>> 
>> Might be useful for some with more common names ;-)
>> 
>> john
>> 
>> 
> 
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