[142374] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Levine)
Thu Jun 23 13:11:21 2011
Date: 23 Jun 2011 17:10:06 -0000
From: "John Levine" <johnl@iecc.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BANLkTi=Wk8ge+wro7TohH4k29K79YqOiZA@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what
>is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ?
I wouldn't try it with less than a million bucks in hand. Beyond the
ICANN application nonsense, you'd also want to budget something for
running and promoting it for however long it takes to verify that it
was a silly idea and then go bust.
R's,
John
