New TLD - Answers to FAQs

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Good article by CircleID which provides answers to FAQs about ICANN's new TLDs.

Can anyone get a TLD?
No. In order to get a TLD you would need to meet criteria on multiple levels, both financial and technical. A lot of the media coverage seems to suggest that just about anyone who wants to can run their own domain extension—the reality is that they can't.

How much will it cost?
The application fee is currently set at $186k, however you would really need to have a couple of million in the coffers if you wanted to actually launch a TLD. The application fee does not cover any legal costs, backend costs, marketing, staff, PR etc., Depending on the TLD you are interested in setting up you might also need to have lobbyists working with you.

Read the rest article at: New TLDs For Dummies (Sort of)

Here's a list of some potentially new TLDs. I see there are some city TLDs on the list. No .mumbai? I do see .London - that's a nice TLD.

BTW, anyone got a spare million dollars?

If you could register your own TLD today, what would it be? .Law would be nice, as it wouldn't matter if the local term in a country was lawyer, solicitor, advocate, barrister....