A shocking revelation is sending waves of mixed emotions across the domain industry: domain registries launching new gTLDs are actually looking to profit from their business endeavor.
The leaked news was not perceived well by domainers, who expected registries such as Donuts, Inc., Uniregistry and Minds+Machines to be goodwill corporations, evangelizing a free-for-all digital kibbutz of sorts.
“I’m appalled Frank Schilling and Paul Stahura want to make money from selling us gTLDs, this sounds remarkably selfish,” said domain investor, Patty Johansson.
“All gTLD domains do is line the pockets of those companies, why can’t they give their product away for free?” pondered Johansson, visibly dejected.
Pointing out that domain registries are like any other business aiming at delivering a profit for their owners and investors, was lambasted as “preposterous” and “obscene” by some domain investors; others called it “capitalism at its worst” and a “slap in the face of socialists worldwide.”
Currently, there is no indication that the gTLD registries will suffer any loss whatsoever from these revelations.
Frank Schilling’s Uniregistry is preparing the launch of several gTLDs on April 15th, and Minds+Machines, along with Donuts, Inc., have a strong launch schedule throughout 2014 as well.
