One of the new gTLD applicants for .sucksopened up Priority Registrations for .sucks domain names for $250 per domain and Trademark Priority Registrations of $2,500 per domain.
The truly shocking part of today’s announcement is that the registry plans on charging $25,000 PER domain for Sunrise Registrations.
Sunrise is reserved for registered trademarks which are registered with the Trademark Clearing House (TMCH).
The registry is offering is a $250 priority registration “Reserve the name you want now, first-come, first-serve. Your registration will take place before General Availability.” or a
Trademark Priority Registration for $2,500 per domain. “If a trademark holder waits until Sunrise to apply the fee is going to be $25,000 per domain.”
“Trademark Priority“Trademark Holders can reserve now and secure a price of $2,500 to avoid announced Sunrise pricing of $25,000.” “Trademark Priority registrations will take place BEFORE sunrise” The Vox Populi Registry Inc. owned by Momentous Corporation, which is the only shareholder listed as owning at least 15% of the registry. Momentous Corporation also owns Pool.com The other two applicants for .Sucks are domain veteran Jay Westerdal’s company Top Level Spectrum, Inc. and Donuts. Donuts previously announced the availability of a global block on all of the extensions it will wind up owning of around $3,000 which would include .sucks if Donuts wins the auction, which looks like a bargain compared to Momentous’ planned pricing. We have already opined that the .sucks registry …
