According to a story from the Associated Press, domain registrar Vox Populi is under scrutiny from ICANN due to how the Canadian company is rolling out its ".sucks" generic top-level domain (gTLD). At issue is the company’s planned pricing structure, which we wrote about last month: .sucks domains will be available to the general public for $249-299, while brand-specific .sucks domains (like comcast.sucks or att.sucks) will be sold to those brands for anywhere from $2,499 to $25,000.
The unprecedented pricing drew fire from many quarters, including industry groups made of companies that would essentially be forced to pay the high fees and secure their own .sucks domains or run the potentially disastrous risk of having them uncontrolled and up for sale to the general public. According to the AP, these accusations of "predatory" actions on the part of Vox Populi have drawn the attention of ICANN, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers.
The regulatory body has dispatched a letter to Vox Populi in an attempt to determine whether the registrar’s activities are actually illegal; if so, ICANN has the option of declaring Vox Populi in breach of contract, as well as seeking "other remedies."
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