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That initial fee is quite the racket. Quarterly's not as bad, but looking at some recent TLDs that have gone inactive you can tell those companies are desperate to save the cash:

Paramount let .cbs and .showtime expire in October, and Gap let .bananarepublic and .oldnavy expire this month.

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Some of them are desperate, perhaps.

I'd guess more of them see that after ten years, Twitter still doesn't make a link when they post something like 'great content on whatever.cbs'. They have $6250 but run out of patience.

The cost of a legal defence to just have someone read some paperwork and say yay or ney.

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