How much is the application fee?
The application fee is non-refundable and can be paid by credit card (Mastercard or Visa), Debit/ATM card, personal check or money order, drawn on an U.S. bank. After you submit your application you will be directed to the fee payment section. Please do not send cash. The application fee is $56.00 US.
Nothing — our online application is free. You will not be charged an application fee for filling out the online application. If your loan application is approved, there will be certain finance charges imposed in connection with your loan, which will be disclosed to you before you sign your promissory note.
The evaluation fee is set at a level to ensure the new gTLD program is self-funded. That means ICANN’s implementation costs must not exceed program fees. This was one of the guiding recommendations of the Generic Names Supporting Organization (GNSO). There are three components in fee estimate: $US26, 000 (per applicant) in historical program development costs; approximately $US100, 000 per applicant in readily identifiable costs of evaluating and processing an application and; approximately $US60, 000 to cover additional elements of the application and delegation process that are very difficult to estimate in this first round of new gTLDs. A detailed outline of the Evaluation Fee and other financial considerations are detailed in the Explanatory Memoranda paper: “Cost Considerations for New Top Level Domains”.
