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Home :: ICANN 20 Nov 2018 DOHA and ZIPPO make forty five ICANN Forty five what? Forty five abandoned top level domains. On November 7, ICANN received a notice from the Communication Regulatory Authority of the State of Qatar that they are terminating the registration agreement for .DOHA. Two weeks before that, the Zadco company terminated .ZIPPO. In addition to the $180,000 application fee, applicants had to hire consultants, make arrangements with back end operators, go through the certification process to get their TLD online. I'd say $500,000 is a reasonable estimate of the cost for each TLD. That means 45 abandoned TLDs is over $20 million spent to accomplish nothing. The list of terminated domains keeps growing, if anything at an increasing rate. There were only 9 terminations in all of 2017, but this year there were three in January, one in February, one in May, four in June, one in July, five in September, two in October, and one so far in November. Terminations come from a wide range of organizations ranging from McDonalds' restaurants to Allstate insurance, to Spiegel publishing, to the Qatar communications ministry, the German post office. and even Bond University in Australia. (What were they thinking?) While I can't feel very sorry for the big presumably sophisticated organizations that wasted their money, it does make me wonder how much other destroyed value is hiding in new TLDs. The zone files for over 500 active new TLDs contain less than 10 names each, even though each is paying the ICANN fixed fee of $25,000/yr. That's $12.5 million of ICANN's budget from zombie TLDs. No doubt a few of those still have plans to do something, but even so, we're looking at a lot of failure. posted at: 11:34 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments posted at: 11:34 :: permanent link to this entry :: 2 comments comments...        (Jump to the end to add your own comment) $12.5M to ICANN... Someone in ICANN Org Risk Management team should be stressing about this. It seems reasonable that many more of these zombies will drop out. (by Mark Svancarek 22 Apr 2019 18:19) $12.5M to ICANN... Someone in ICANN Org Risk Management team should be stressing about this. It seems reasonable that many more of these zombies will drop out. (by Mark Svancarek 22 Apr 2019 18:21) Add your comment... Note: all comments require an email address to send a confirmation to verify that it was posted by a person and not a spambot. The comment won't be visible until you click the link in the confirmation. Unless you check the box below, which almost nobody does, your email won't be displayed, and I won't use it for other purposes.   Name: Email: you@wherever (required, for confirmation) Title: (optional) Comments: Show my Email address Save my Name and Email for next time

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