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A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
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Could someone register a tld and charge a crazy amount of money for it, to extort big companies?
Yes. Look up the history of .sucks
A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
google.pizza, google.yoga, google.keyboard will all be trivially easy for Google to claim trademark infringement for.
So while it's cute that you can register "google.soy" -- if Google cares enough they'll take if from you.
Which is why ICANN hasn't approved any new TLDs in years, and has a set of standards for registries and registrars to follow less they lose their licensing.
A Google domain name is lying on the ground. An IT guy walks past it. A friend asks: "Didn't you see the Google domain name there?" The IT guy replies: "I thought I saw something, but I must've imagined it. If there had been a Google domain on the ground, someone would've picked it up."
Namebase is built on the Handshake protocol - a decentralized, permissionless naming protocol where every peer is validating and in charge of managing the root DNS naming zone with the goal of creating an alternative to existing Certificate Authorities and naming systems. (https://handshake.org/)
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…
> 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 My guess is that they were never available and there are doing a poor job of figuring out which domains are taken and which are not. I've been this in several other domain name search sites too, especially if there is no nameserver for a registered…
I worked on some registrar-related stuff years ago now and even at that time, Verisign was known for having poor support of providing information about .com registrations.
>Did you know it costs a minimum of $185,000 to create your own domain name ending? For that kind of money, I think ICANN, the registries and registrar sites have a massive responsibility to ensure that this never happens. Which is why ICANN hasn't approved any new TLDs in years, and has a set of standards for registries and registrars to follow less they lose their licensing.
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Explosions of TLDs is bad!? Why?. It got rid of impossible to buy good sounding and short names, largely massive multi million dollar companies holding onto them. Explosions of TLDs literally has absolutely no downsides besides the security and phishing implications. It just wiped out the domain mafias and replaced it with a massive competitive marketplace.
Many of the gTLDs charge exorbitant yearly fees for "premium" domains as a means of recouping costs. I pay $300/yr for {myFirstName}.dev. It's extortion, and I might drop it. With many of the common domain suffixes now becoming TLDs, branding seems much more difficult since you have to buy multiple domains. Is it audiotech.com? audio.tech? tech.audio? Who knows. I don't think that I would call this better. My opinion…
Luxury products are not exploitation.