> > Actually, if you look at ICANN's finances, they're retrenching because > the new TLDs have mostly been a failure. There's a huge one-time pot > of unexpected money from domain auctions, but they've promised to give > it away. Other than that, it's been at best meh, and over 100 of the > vanity TLDs have tried it, decided they were useless, and told ICANN > to turn them off. >
Interesting, did not know about this. I tried to find something and was actually surprised this .xyz is sold so much. I have never seen anything but crap coming from that .xyz.