Question: One was able to register .tv names for as low as $50. I actually passes on the opportunity and if I now decided to by the same name that was available at $50 it would now cost me 1,500 a year. Is this going to change?

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Lawrence Lessig - posted on 2000-10-07 06:52:46 If the TLD space increases, so there are more television-chartered TLDs, the price should decline. Barbara Simons - posted on 2000-10-05 16:42:51 The solution is the creation of a great many new TLDs. This will eliminate the false scarcity problem, which is being reflected in the inflated prices that you are seeing. Lyman Chapin - posted on 2000-10-05 09:23:43 Yes. The .tv registrar can charge a high fee today because (a) there's no competition among registrars for Tuvalu's ccTLD, and (b) until the TLD space is expanded, .tv enjoys a monopoly on the television connotation of the TLD name (a similar situation exists with Moldova's domain .md, and may soon exist with Colombia's domain .co). This will change. Emerson Tiller, J.D., Ph.D. - posted on 2000-10-04 19:34:15 If more Top Level Domains are allowed, and I argue that they should be, then competition will drive these prices down.