[142386] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jorge Amodio)
Thu Jun 23 19:29:47 2011
In-Reply-To: <20110623171006.47716.qmail@joyce.lan>
Date: Thu, 23 Jun 2011 18:29:31 -0500
From: Jorge Amodio <jmamodio@gmail.com>
To: John Levine <johnl@iecc.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 12:10 PM, John Levine <johnl@iecc.com> wrote:
>>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. =A0Beyond 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.
My perception is that if you don't have access to ~$2M for that kind
of gTLD don't even waste your time.
(Does the $185K include the given gTLD cocktail party at the seasonal
ICANN meeting ?)
Cheers
Jorge
