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<p>Thanks Michele!</p>
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<p>Even if it has zero registrations, ICANN made a nice chunk of income out of it. Should they get their money back?</p>
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<p>Cheers</p>
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<p>El 2018-07-11 10:27, Michele Neylon - Blacknight escribió:</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span>If it was a TLD with actual registrations then it would be a totally different matter, but it isn't.<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'tahoma',sans-serif;">On top of these kind of stories that speak to the conditions in the end user market and the 'retired and/or abandoned gLTDs, it just seems 'otherworldly' to me that in all the happy talk of new rounds, this idea that demand has something to do with markets is largely left unmentioned. Helluva thing!<!-- o ignored --></span></p>
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