alt Hacker NewsHmm okay to rephrase my question, why are ICANN such money grubbing assholes? Is it a political thing?
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r_lee • yesterday at 7:30 PM
it's like Wikipedia begging for money saying they don't have enough
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doublerabbit • yesterday at 7:06 PM
Because they can; it's a racket. Like paid SSL certificates, all of it is corporate greed.
One solution is running your own DNS servers. This way you can list your own TLD's. However good luck in convincing others to change their DNS.
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The boring answer is that infrastructure costs money.
You either use taxes from everyone to pay for it or you take money from the people using the thing.