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Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by manquer »

yarinr wrote: post #7

I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.

Perhaps government organizations ? Also not all TLD's cost 185k to create, ccTLD were given free to each country to mange for example, similarly language specific common gTLD may have had special provisions for some countries to manage perhaps.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by bobbiechen »

I was just talking to a friend yesterday about "domain hacks" (where you spell some word using the TLD) in the context of country-code TLDs. Those raise some interesting issues for political reasons [1, 2].

For the newer TLDs like .soy, .pizza, .restaurant, etc. I really can't imagine that these would be adopted quickly. Even to me, these are barely recognized as URLs at all. And the possibility for domain name confusion really skyrockets, as demonstrated by the submission.

[1] https://priceonomics.com/the-rise-and-fall-of-ly/ [2] https://www.thewebmaster.com/hosting/2016/feb/27/io-tld-top-...

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by esnard »

yarinr wrote: post #7

I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.

The applicant was actually Verisign. [0][1]

[0]: https://icannwiki.org/.%D7%A7%D7%95%D6%B9%D7%9D

[1]: https://gtldresult.icann.org/applicationstatus/applicationde...

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by tialaramex »

yarinr wrote: post #7

I'm from Israel, and this is the first time I've heard about the .קום tld. I've never seen any website that uses it. The author mentioned that creating a new tld costs a minimum of 185k USD. This makes me wonder who would pay this kind of money for this completely useless tld.

If they managed it for only $185k I'm impressed, maybe if you did several on the same infrastructure.

It's a gold mine offering. There was a long queue of people quite sure that .binglebongle would be the new .com. Sometimes it was a marginally less stupid plan, like we can be a regional alternative - and Russia even has one that's actually making money - it isn't taking over the world, but it's Cyrillic and was never intended to. But most gold mines never produce gold, they just suck up people's money and dreams and spit out the bones.

The obscure brand TLDs are funnier. Not brands you've heard of like google, brands who are their own tiny corner of the non-IT world and figured they ought to have a TLD, so now they do to the tune of maybe six figures a year.

The Kerry Group for example owns several, as do some US financial outfits. Why? Because nobody who knew this was a stupid idea was in the room when it got decided.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by qwertox »

> google.com in Hebrew! And I could actually buy it. It bloody worked.

In a couple of weeks the follow-up "Google cancelled my Gmail account and won't tell me why"

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by chinathrow »

pmachinery wrote: post #26
saagarjha wrote: post #3

Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech (edit: google.page), google.business, and google.camp. Tried to purchase them but they instantly became unavailable the moment I tried to do so. The cynic in me thinks that Google has a special check for those and renews it themselves if someone tries… More genera…

There is no way you'd get a "google" domain under any extension but even if you register a domain with "google" + something else you're going to lose it in a UDRP anyway. It's possible that google and other major brand names don't have to register every extension, the names are just reserved for them alone, should they want them.

Huh?

The guy in the article did in fact buy a google.tld - https://google.xn--9dbq2a/

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by adamtulinius »

p4bl0 wrote: post #21
dheera wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Even better yet, it would be interesting if we just abandoned TLDs. There is no reason why http://google/ can't work, really, with a bunch of infrastructure changes.

I remember seeing a NIC that did this with their TLD. But I can't remember which one :/. I would love if someone finds it.

I think it's pretty common. Our national NIC does it: http://dk redirects to their website.
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