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ICANN Releases Draft For New TLDs 168

Posted by kdawson on Friday October 24, 2008 @01:28PM from the dot-whatever dept.

NdJ writes "Looks like a whole new domain name battle ground is about to open up. ICANN have just made available their How to Apply for a New Generic Top-Level Domain Draft Applicant Guidebook. It won't be cheap for the individual, but certainly achievable for many domain-name-pimps. 'The Evaluation Fee is designed to make the new gTLD program self-funding only. This was a recommendation of the Generic names Supporting Organization. A detailed costing methodology — including historical program development costs, and predictable and uncertain costs associated with processing new gTLD applications through to delegation in the root zone — estimates a per applicant fee of $US185,000. This is the estimated cost per evaluation in the first application round.'"

Comment Re:You can get a little money recycling tin foil.. (Score 2, Interesting) 718

by Freaky on Monday February 25, 2008 @06:36PM (#22551690) Attached to: Can you afford to cut up your credit cards?

How credit cards affect your credit 101.

Any card with a blance in excess of 30% of the available line drops your score (at the moment in time that the credit company looks at it that month.) You get another hit at 50% and an even bigger hit at 90%.

A card over 24 months in good standing helps, the longer the better.

Credit cards below $2,500 limit don't help much.

The more low value credit cards you have the worse your credit becomes. (So avoid all those store cards).

Best case is to have one or possibly two cards that report to all 3 agencies with the higest limit you can get, zero lates and a less than 30% balance at any given time.

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