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ICANN is a bureaucracy granted power by the United States government. Its embarrassing that this kind of linkbait crap makes it to hacker news.

As for the underlying issue, I'm all for new extensions. What bothers me is the dirty games being played when they are sold. Registrars create special rules that benefit themselves such as selling generic word domains off for a premium.



again, its the registries that do this - registrars are mainly a sales channel, we don't set the rules.


That's not exactly true. Registrars are well represented in any decision ICANN makes.




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