"I know it is simple math but I think it would be pretty easy to find 1,500 companies"
Not really true (I'm in this business for a long long time). First you'd have to market to a much larger pool of companies to end up with 1500 buyers (I'll take your math to be correct for the purpose of my comment by the way..) To market to those companies will cost big dollars. How are you going to do it? Direct mail? Web ads? Pay per click?
In order to sell TLD's you have to be in the path of existing registrars that control the market. One of those of course is godaddy for example. Not easy to get shelf space there.
You got me thinking.. what about Kickstarter? For example, let's say we wanted .hacker. Someone with some rep in our community could start a Kickstarter to do this, no?
Ah, that sucks. I thought I read elsewhere on this thread about losers being "compensated."
That said, if it was just $10-20, I'd be up for contributing to such a Kickstarter even with the proviso it might not work out. Getting 15,000+ people to feel the same might well be difficult though..
Not really true (I'm in this business for a long long time). First you'd have to market to a much larger pool of companies to end up with 1500 buyers (I'll take your math to be correct for the purpose of my comment by the way..) To market to those companies will cost big dollars. How are you going to do it? Direct mail? Web ads? Pay per click?
In order to sell TLD's you have to be in the path of existing registrars that control the market. One of those of course is godaddy for example. Not easy to get shelf space there.