The new domains could cost as much as $100,000 to register, and will require a large amount of recourses to maintain.
Re-reading this, I think whoever wrote this has got confused. I think he/she is referring to running the TLD for the .anything itself. The BBC has an article on it at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/7475986.stm and I think there’s a similar misconception because in there it says:
However, the cost of setting up a domain – at least initially – will be an expensive business.
and…
Individuals will be able to register a domain based on their own name, for example, as long as they can show a “business plan and technical capacity“.
“Setting up“…”Technical capacity“? To have a domain name? No way. They are referring to the registrar who sets up and sells the TLD IMO.