> The only thing that I recall having said about "smaller" gTLDs is
>
> * monopoly gTLDs are probably acceptable where the number of
> probably registrants is too small to make running a shared
> registry economically viable
The CORE SRS is designed to handle any number of TLDs; the incremental
cost of adding a TLD is zero; the incremental cost of running a
registry for a very lightly used TLD is zero. Therefore, there is no
such case as you describe -- for *any* new TLD, regardless of the number
of probable registrants, it will be cheaper to run it in the SRS than it
would be to create a tiny new monopoly registry.
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