While the sun still shines

ICANN's behaviour is completely explicable: while the organisation still has its authority over the Internet's top-level namespace, it can effectively print money by creating one gold-rush after another as brand after brand and company after company have to buy up domains bearing their names before someone else does.

When stewardship of such matters passes to some other organisation, hopefully one with a more responsible attitude, maybe ICANN can still make a few bucks selling tulip bulbs or titles to plots of land on the Moon.