It's the applicants own fault!
They didn't pay extra for the whois privacy.
After proudly revealing the details of almost 2,000 new generic top-level domain applications, red-faced ICANN was today forced to yank the whole lot after applicants complained that their home addresses had been published by mistake. ICANN published the partial text of 1,930 gTLD bids – each of which carried a $185,000 …
"For many of the big brand names applying for new gTLDs, the fact that they had to file personal data about their officers and directors – needed for ICANN's background checks – was a much higher barrier to the programme than the $185,000 fee."
So many of our big brands are run by dodgy geezers?
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"They are going to be livid" PMSL
gTLDs were a bad idea to begin with, but ICANN's unnumbered embarrassments show that they're simply not capable of handling it. Better to stop now than to wait until this mess goes live and the REALLY bad issues crop up. (Because there's no doubt in my mind that they will.)
125k *just to apply* then skim a percentage of the auction for the multiple bids ? For something no body needs or wants?
Winner !
Then skim further money for all the extra defensive registrations companies will have to make until the end of time ?
Bonus !
Have the EU banking clan object to the whole idea on the grounds that 419 scammers shouldn't be able to operate barclays.bank ?
Priceless !