Skimming the recommendations, they want wider participation from the non-western world and I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit (there's also an annual fee of $24k, +25 cents per second-level domain)
Anyone know how much a company like Afilias charges for its end of things if you choose to outsource the IT? (e.g. assistance with the application, spinning up the TLD, ongoing costs to maintain)?
> I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit
Honestly, my expectation would be that the application fee will go up, because the first round received so many terrible applications (like brand TLDs that the trademark owner had no intention of using).
It looks like we're inching closer to a new round:
https://gac.icann.org/activity/subsequent-rounds-of-new-gtld...
Skimming the recommendations, they want wider participation from the non-western world and I suspect the $185k application fee may go down a bit (there's also an annual fee of $24k, +25 cents per second-level domain)
Anyone know how much a company like Afilias charges for its end of things if you choose to outsource the IT? (e.g. assistance with the application, spinning up the TLD, ongoing costs to maintain)?
EDIT: Some quotes from Instra: https://www.instra.com/en/new-gtlds/pricing
Here are some links to prior ICANN guides and other info if you want a better sense of the application process:
https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain
And dated from an era when the fee was a mere $5k: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/applicants/tas