back to article Half a BILLION dollars later and, PHEW, we're all done buying up dot-word domain rights

The auctioning of rights to new dot-word top-level domains has finally come to a close with the sale of .stream to portfolio company Famous Four. In the past week, four other gTLDs - .map, .living, .search and .fun - has also been resolved, with two of them going to Google. Over the past year, domain-name overseer ICANN has …

  1. A Non e-mouse Silver badge

    Buy the ICANN.Sucks domain, maybe?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      no ICANN for you

      Reg already said all icann.* domains are reserved.

      1. John Robson Silver badge

        Re: no ICANN for you

        So get really.sucks - then make your own subdomains...

        ICANN.really.sucks

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    The thing I most resent about this

    is how much I sound like a luddite grandpa, ranting about the fundamental worthlessness of domains, vanity, what else the money could have gone towards, how Nigerian scammers avoid shaking hands with ICANN execs, etc

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