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Comment by Ayesh | Hacker News Reader

I find it quite impressive that everyone raised their voices, although ICANN and PIR seem to turn a blind eye to them.

For a registry, their main costs are nameserver costs and ICANN licensing fees (~$25K for gTLDs, not sure for classic TLDs). It's totally unfair on PIR side to jack the prices up just because they can.

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These costs don't sound exorbitant.

Are profane TLDs allowed? I'd love to register a particular four letter gTLD. I'm sure it'd make its money back.

Not really profane, but there’s https://get.sucks

I love that the first selling point is

> Protect your identity online so that no one can defame your name.

This one is an extortion racket.

http://facebook.sucks

> Registrant Organization: Facebook, Inc.

https://whois.nic.sucks

microsoft.sucks, apple.sucks, and google.sucks are registered by their respective companies as well.

It absolutely is. And .sucks domains are much more expensive than most other TLDs.

I was under the impression that .sucks domains cost about $10 for an individual but thousands for a corporation (as an anti-corporate endeavour). I can't find anything on this though, so perhaps I imagined it.

according to https://get.sucks/fees .sucks domains have an MSRP of $250 for standard domains and $2500 for "premium" domains. I can't see a list, but my guess is the "premium" domains are the names of larger corporations and wealthy individuals that the registry thinks they can extort more money from.

Also .fail.

Initial registration is $185K, and there is a fair amount of back and forth documentation requirements with ICANN, and if someone else requests the same TLD, there will be a bidding as well.

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