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$1 for a whole gTLD... $2.8m if you want a decent one

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Anyone will be able to bid for a piece of the internet’s domain-name landscape this April – and for just $1 you could bag one of the more unpopular parts.

If you can spare just a few more dollars, you could snap up .audio, .game, .photo, .tattoo or 19 other common words, and go into business selling domains ending in those dot-words. We're talking $400,000 for .audio and $2.8m for .game, for instance.

At the lower end, there is no minimum price for the .hiv and .juegos registries: bid a buck, and with no better offers, they would be yours.

And don't forget: if you acquire one of these gTLDs, you have to pay ICANN any applicable annual fees – $6,250 a quarter and potentially transaction costs, typically – as well as other costs to actually run the dot-word's registry.

More details on The Register site.

Full disclosure: I will not be bidding :-)

This is what you get when you (= ICANN) approve extentions that have a very limited usage or very small target audience. Some new extentions make sense (.mail, .site, .photo, .bar, .art, .blog, ...) but there's also quite a few with very little potential.

That said, .juegos may be worth at least something. The Spanish-language market is huge, gaming is big, so the combination could hold potential.

If it wasn't for this $6,250 a quarterI would get .mylastname :(