What the f* ICANN is doing?
I am really pissed off with ICANN over their domain policies and handling. First they screw up the whole WHOIS thing, then introduce some useless (useful by spammers though) TLDs and now they let a company takes so much control of TLD.
Here’s a new release of $10 TLD called .TEL (you can start registering in around March) which you can’t host it on your own server. Yes, it may sounds crazy but that’s the fact. Regardless of domain register that you bought the domain, it will be hosted by a company called Telnic and only your name, contact information, location (GoogleMap link) and a URL to your website. Yes, that’s it without any images or logo of your company and with a fixed template provided by mighty Telnic. What a f* up idea, isn’t it?
FYI: You can check out demo of how your .tel site will look like here and here .
Most of the new TLDs introduced by ICANN are just failure (except maybe .mobi) and they are going to allow companies (with trademarks) to register their own TLD (and I suppose with their own policies).
Nobody in this world cares about any other TLDs except .com/net/org/gov/edu. Instead of expanding the lists of TLDs, they should set stricter rules and regulations for registration and management (like the restriction they have for .gov and .edu). Lots of people out there own several domains (several mean from 10 - 10,000 domains) without actually utilizing most of them (90% are just under parking-page). I myself own several dozens domain (not as a mean for investment but to protect some of my ideal name).
ICANN seriously needs to revamp their stands on domain names as well as their policies. Instead of creating new TLDs, do a spring-cleaning of domains that are not in used or just kept for investment purposes.
Currently, you contact details such as phone number, fax number, address and email will be displayed whenever somebody perform WHOIS on your domain unless of course if you have bought the domain privacy service. It is a bloody requirement that ICANN request from whoever purchasing the domains (except for the .CA domains).