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.
Sure, but why would they?
Can you imagine all the search advertising Google would lose if they allowed just 'nike' and 'att' to resolve the websites in Chrome, rather than search results?
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."
There's a bunch of good TLD's available every week on https://www.namebase.io/ for a lot less than ICANN charges. For example recently someone got the js/ TLD for about $19k in HNS. (compare that to ICANN's $200k application fee) 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…
>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.
Meanwhile, you can use https://www.namebase.io/ instead. (think GoDaddy + Coinbase, built on the Handshake protocol) [ https://handshake.org/ ]
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."
There's a bunch of good TLD's available every week on https://www.namebase.io/ for a lot less than ICANN charges. For example recently someone got the js/ TLD for about $19k in HNS. (compare that to ICANN's $200k application fee) 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…
So… these aren't accessible without specially configured DNS, right? Given that the point of domains is to let people get to your site, a TLD only accessible after reconfiguring your computer to use a little-known DNS competitor seems worth a hell of a lot less than $19,000.
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."
For anyone unfamiliar, this is a clever riff on a classic economics joke about the Efficient Market Hypothesis [1]. "Two economists are walking down the street and one of them notices what appears to be a $20 bill (or a $100 bill—the monetary amounts vary) on the sidewalk. “It’s not a real $20 bill,” the other economist declares. “If it were a real $20 bill, someone would have picked it up off the sidewalk already.”…
Except the $20 bill in this case is a $-10 bill (or whatever the domain name costs), as there is no profit to be made by registering a top company's trademark as a domain name.
Huh? The guy in the article did in fact buy a google.tld - https://google.xn--9dbq2a/
I wasn't talking to the guy in the article, was I?
The guy in the article was able to do it recently. Why not the person you were replying to? (Besides the fact that now the guy in the article has done them all)
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."
With the expansiion of TLDs, this just means that apex domains of a TLD will still be subject to trademarks. 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.
Does anyone aggregate access to all 1500 TLD's? Is there a guide available on which combination of registrars to use to query them all?
Run WHOIS at scale and store the results into a DB. gTLD operators are required to provide WHOIS services, and WHOIS tells you whether any given domain is registered or not.
There are companies that will happily sell you this data in a more usable format.