Domain name bods NetNames netted by CSC Global

Mad

I've never known anyone in this post-dot-com-bubble-burst era charge such high fees for domain registrations, renewals and transfers. The fact that they have lost so much money when their markup on wholesale registration fees is in the 1000% range is, well, impressive!

Domain name registration is a vanishingly low margin business dealing with the lowest cost but most critically important components of a firm's public internet presence.

That's a thankless mix that guarantees a bad name to the firms that operate in the space.

What any enterprise IT vendor would want with a business like that is beyond me. This is possibly the one thing short of child trafficking that could actually make their reputation worse.

Demand for gTLDs

Nobody really wants the gTLDs, they seem to only exist for brand protection and nothing more. No one trusts them and they go unused and will probably just end up being ignored or actively avoided like ".biz" or ".info". The whole concept was flawed from the beginning, especially since ICANN tried this crap before with ".areo" and ".museum" which failed horribly...