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This is the first time in a couple years that I have seen a reference to myself while reading an article. Thanks for the surprise! > No. They're welcome to have them back anytime they want. They could probably do it pretty forcibly if I refused to budge too (see Microsoft vs. MikeRoweSoft).
Strange that Netflix hasn't drunk the Registry cool-aid and bought their "all-encompassing" TLD package which registers their trademark across all TLD's for a special price. On top of that, I'm doubly surprised Google hasn't taken action and already put this domain on hold in preemption of selling Netflix one of these deals.
>their "all-encompassing" TLD package which registers their trademark across all TLD's for a special price That's a thing? What's preventing a predatory registry from being a holdout and demanding exorbitant prices?
afaik there's nothing that requires registries to use a DPML and it doesn't really make sense unless they manage lots of TLDs, since the cost of adding your trademark to the DPML is usually a lot more than the cost of a single registration.
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Lots of people hand registered 3 and 4 letter .coms in the past. So because they could do it, anyone who points out it's not possible now should be downvoted and asked to explain themselves with: Why is it not possible, beside the fact that it's not possible? [Edited to remove excess frustration/annoyance/snark at people quibbling so much about a totally inconsequential and factual remark.]
Go back to reddit neckbeard
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What about .sucks? Couldn’t one claim free speech? https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogerkay/2015/06/29/saga-of-suc...
Free speech is a right issued by governments to the people. It is not a valid concept between two private parties. https://money.cnn.com/2017/08/08/technology/google-workplace...
He argues that the practice has its basis in trademark laws. If it is so, nominative use of a trademark to e.g. criticize a product is considered fair use and shouldn't be ruled out by ICANN on that basis. It either wouldn't be, or ICANN have some other basis than trademark law for their rulings.
So GP's point raises an interesting question. If you had registered e.g. "google.sucks" or something similar in which the FQDN arguably forms a valid nominative use in itself in good faith to use that domain to criticize Google's business decisions and products, does ICANN have some other policy outside respecting trademark law that would compel them to take the name back and give it to Google?
The answer to that question isn't "Free speech is a right issued by governments to the people". That's a pointless non sequitur at best, and I'm frankly tired of hearing it used in defense of huge monopolies that are well deserved of scrutiny in the interest of defending freedom of expression.
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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.
It's worth noting that MarkMonitor ownership has changed in recent years. Regardless, they certainly can register all the names for you, if that's what you ask them to do, but at some point, there's an awful lot of names, and it feels extortiony to pay for them all. I was working for a MarkMonitor client when the 'landrush' for all these new tlds was happening, and we'd get frequent emails about which tlds were going…
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Sure, if your name is Mike Google, then you might have better chances at keeping your domain. Probably still not good chances to profit off of it.
Now this a valid reason to give your kid the surname of a brand. To get rich quick. Too bad that this also limits employment options in the long run (can you imagine Google to work for Amazon?)
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…
My conclusion was that your domain name must not be in the form of YourName.tld; the tld must be part of your name. You can either use puns like buying yourna.me, but it's a bit weird for non-tech people, or you have to use the weirdness of tlds and go for something like lostin.space. There is less confusion at "what comes after" because there is only one.
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http://ai./ still works
What happens if I have a computer on my network named ai? Wouldn't it cause a conflict? I called my FreeNAS box freenas because I didn't feel very creative, and I can browse to it as http://freenas or http://freenas./ but if they took a domain of 'freenas' suddenly that means I have to do extra work and rename my stuff. Doesn't seem fair!
One winter day, my wife looked down the coast and noticed that the bell buoy that marked the entrance to Plum Island Sound was lying on the beach. This thing is enormous, about 30 ft long. We drove down and walked around it with some other curious people. Took some pictures. She thought that we ought to report it. I told her that many people would already have done that. A couple of days went by and there didn’t seem…