I'm less concerned about the potential for high prices on those TLDs and more concerned about the disturbing practice of coordinated censorship by registrars such as namecheap.
We should be commenting to ICANN that all registrars should be required to register and domain regardless of it's content. The registrar wouldn't have to provide secondary services such as hosting, dns, etc... But the actual registration and pushing of glue records should be required in order to maintain your status as a registrar.
ICANN is supposed to be operating in the pubic trust, but by handing off registrations to other entities who ban together to censor undesirable content they violate that trust by proxy. This is a far more relevant issue for us.
I'm less concerned about the potential for high prices on those TLDs and more concerned about the disturbing practice of coordinated censorship by registrars such as namecheap.
We should be commenting to ICANN that all registrars should be required to register and domain regardless of it's content. The registrar wouldn't have to provide secondary services such as hosting, dns, etc... But the actual registration and pushing of glue records should be required in order to maintain your status as a registrar.
ICANN is supposed to be operating in the pubic trust, but by handing off registrations to other entities who ban together to censor undesirable content they violate that trust by proxy. This is a far more relevant issue for us.