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Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by CydeWeys »

saagarjha wrote: post #30
pmachinery wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.

He never registered google.com. google.com is hard-locked at the registry level by Verisign and has very high security manual safeguards around any changes that are made to it.

There was a temporary bug in Google Domains that made it appear as if he had bought google.com, but he had not.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by DangerousPie »

I don't really agree with the premise of this post. Why should Netflix or Google have to buy a domain for every stupid gTLD that someone paid a few $100k to create? The author makes it sound like that's somehow an oversight on their part.

If anything, it's sad that they ended up having to own so many gTLDs just to prevent abuse.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by XCSme »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

gTLDs are nothing but a money play by ICANN and registrars and really make the internet a (slightly) more confusing and dangerous place. Within epsilon, all the money spent by companies on gTLDs is dead weight with no payoff in increased usability but only to prevent some naive user from being tricked. The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

What about ".net"? It's a pretty old, established domain with many large companies using it (themeforest.net, cpanel.net, php.net, ovh.net, doubleclick.net)

Also ".io" usually hosts legit internet businesses.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by CydeWeys »

xeeeeeeeeeeenu wrote: post #15
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…

>Interestingly, I recently saw a couple a couple of google.* domains available on Google Domains, including some reasonable-sounding ones: IIRC, google.tech, 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… It must have been a bug in Goo…

It could have been an interruption in connectivity with the registry operator(s) for those TLDs. When that happens, most registrars will at least attempt to buy domains they're currently unable to retrieve the status of. You only get charged if the domain actually ends up being created.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by tylerhou »

dheera wrote: post #10
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…

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.

Infrastructure changes aren't even needed; Google already owns the .google TLD. All they would need to do is attach an A record to the root.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by tialaramex »

RcouF1uZ4gsC wrote: post #5

gTLDs are nothing but a money play by ICANN and registrars and really make the internet a (slightly) more confusing and dangerous place. Within epsilon, all the money spent by companies on gTLDs is dead weight with no payoff in increased usability but only to prevent some naive user from being tricked. The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

> The advice I give my non-techie friends is avoid going to any business website that is not a “.com”

Ha. Do you give these friends other advice of the same calibre? I wonder what they think of you.

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Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by JMTQp8lwXL »

CydeWeys wrote: post #41
saagarjha wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.

He never registered google.com. google.com is hard-locked at the registry level by Verisign and has very high security manual safeguards around any changes that are made to it. There was a temporary bug in Google Domains that made it appear as if he had bought google.com, but he had not.

Are there other domains hard-locked at the registry level? I haven't heard of this behavior before.

Re: I bought netflix.soy

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Post by fortran77 »

I used to work for a Big Media Company. They used to scramble to by BigMediaCompany. whenever there was a new tld.

Then one day they stopped. The legal department decided that if someone were to buy it and use it in a way that infringed on their trademark, it would be cheaper/easier to sue or file an injunction.

For a while it was an extortion game. A new .tld like ".mobi" or ".music" would start, and they'd offer the names to fortune 500 trademark holders for $$$$$.

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