[janusz]

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 :-)