# Have A Spare $185,000? Create a Top Level Domain

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**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [January 15, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-spare-185-000-create-a-top-level-domain/609588 "2012-01-15T10:46:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![BeaMyra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/2bfe46/32.png) [@BeaMyra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BeaMyra)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-spare-185-000-create-a-top-level-domain/609588/1 "2012-01-15T10:46:47Z")

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From the WSJ

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> The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, known by the acronym Icann, is accepting applications for an infinite number of new Web addresses, known as top-level domain names…Icann will let people apply, for a fee of $185,000, to create whatever suffixes they like, which will be reviewed and go live next year. Expect .hitachi and .paris, for example. Icann is also adding local-language Web names in non-Latin characters such as Chinese and Cyrillic.

Link

[http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577145132261409846.html](http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203471004577145132261409846.html)

What do you think? I think it’s good that the Internet will have non-Latin character domains, though I do understand the risk of spoofing. Some Cyrillic characters look almost identical to Latin characters, so it’d be easy to spoof it.

Seeing as it’s so costly, it will likely mean no cybersquatting. Who’s gonna shell out taht kind of money not to use it.

What do you think?

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**Author:** ![black\_rabbit](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f19dbf/32.png) [@black\_rabbit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/black_rabbit)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 10:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-spare-185-000-create-a-top-level-domain/609588/2 "2012-01-15T22:57:41Z")

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My first act upon winning the Powerball will be to finally make [clownpenis.fart](http://www.dula.tv/watch.php?file=clown-penis-dot-fart.flv) a reality.

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**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\
**Post date:** [January 15, 2012, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-spare-185-000-create-a-top-level-domain/609588/3 "2012-01-15T23:25:02Z")

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Dot-sunspace here we come!

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**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\
**Post date:** [January 16, 2012, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/have-a-spare-185-000-create-a-top-level-domain/609588/4 "2012-01-16T00:48:22Z")

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Is .sdmb taken?  
I smell profit!!!