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Companies like Mark Monitor will buy all of the .tld's for you-- and continually grab new ones (as the set of TLDs is constantly growing). At Netflix's size, I would assume they would've paid for such a service.
Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?
> 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"
I own 인스타그램.닷컴, and (actually!) use it to share photos with my Korean friends. But, uhh, I would certainly not decline if Facebook were to try to purchase it to make it reroute to Instagram.
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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 neve…
> 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. While everyone here has certainly heard of Softbank, I find it amusing that they have their own TLD too (with sites like https://group.softbank/ ).
not until your comment had I heard of "softbank"
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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.
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…
If any of the big names found someone using a clone domain and objected to it, the domain owner - I'd expect - would find themselves having a chat with keenly interested IP attorneys.
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…
Wouldn't surprise me if big tech like Google does the same.