New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by grose » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:15 PM UTC

New gTLD Applied-For Strings
newgtlds.icann.org

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by jnorthrop » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:45 PM UTC

With a quick look there are some interesting things. Doesn't look like too many consumer companies came out to play. One of note is that Coca-Cola did not bid on .coke nor did P&G bid on anything.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by seiji » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:51 PM UTC

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .google, .guge (what?), .hangout, .here, .home, .how, .inc (really?), .ing, .kid, .live, .llc (really?), .llp, .lol (wtf?), .love (...), .mail (ambitious much?), .map, .mba (you can have them all), .med, .meme, .mom (awww), .moto, .mov (quicktime extension!), .movie, .music, .new ('nother file extension), .nexus, .page (web or larry?), .pet, .phd (duh), .play, .plus, .prod, .prof, .rsvp, .search, .shop, .show, .site, .soy, .spot, .srl, .store, .talk, .team, .tech, .tour, .tube, .vip, .web, .wow, .you, .youtube, .zip (file extension), .みんな, .グーグル, .谷歌

What the holy hell? Did google just have an employee suggestion box and they applied for all submitted names?

Apple wants: .apple

Microsoft wants: .azure, .bing, .docs, .hotmail, .live, .microsoft, .office, .skydrive, .skype, .windows, .xbox

Microsoft is just defending their own brands.

Only two applicants for .sex (and one for .sexy)

Amazon wants: .amazon, .app, .audible, .author, .aws, .book, .bot, .box, .buy, .call, .circle, .cloud, .coupon, .deal, .dev (nice way to snoop on poorly configured corporate dns too. in competition with google), .drive, .fast, .fire, .free, .game, .got, .group, .hot, .imdb, .jot, .joy (smells like zappos), .kids, .kindle, .like (only applicant), .mail, .map, .mobile, .moi, .movie, .music, .news (google didn't apply for .news), .now, .pay (dangerous), .pin, .play, .prime, .read, .room, .safe, .save, .search (woo), .secure, .shop, .show, .silk, .smile (aww), .song, .spot, .store, .talk, .tunes (ha!), .tushu, .video, .wanggou, .wow, .yamaxun, .you, .yun, .zappos, .zero, .アマゾン, .ストア, .セール, .ファッション, .ポイント, .亚马逊, .家電, .書籍, .通販, .食品

Amazon is part brand defense and part what-the-hell-are-you-doing too.

There will be no winners here. The best thing they can do now is cancel the idea of corporate TLD ownership.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by bgraves » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

Top 10 by Number of Applicants:

  APP	   13
  INC	   11
  HOME	   11
  ART	   10
  SHOP	   9
  BOOK	   9
  BLOG	   9
  LLC	   9
  DESIGN   8
  MOVIE	   8
  MUSIC	   8

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by simias » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:52 PM UTC

How much do those cost again? A nice cash grab by the ICANN I presume.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:54 PM UTC

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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by simias » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:55 PM UTC

seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

Long term investment? Scorched earth strategy? Surely google can afford it. Some of those seem strange though.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by grose » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:57 PM UTC

The most contentious domains are .app (13 applications), .inc (11), .home (11), and .art (10), followed by .shop, .blog, and .book, and .llc at 9. Rough list here: https://gist.github.com/2923898

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by omh » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

There was a $108,000 "evaluation fee" per gtld, so that's over 11 million USD in fees.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by grotos » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:58 PM UTC

seiji wrote: post #3

Google wants: .ads, .and, .android, .app, .are, .baby, .blog, .boo, .book, .buy, .cal, .car (no .cdr?), .channel, .chrome, .cloud, .corp (great way to snoop on poorly configured intranets), .cpa, .dad, .day, .dclk, .dds (New: Google Dentist!), .dev, .diy, .docs, .dog, .dot, .drive, .earth, .eat, .esq, .est, .family, .film, .fly, .foo, .free, .fun, .fyi, .game, .gbiz, .gle, .gmail, .gmbh (really?), .goo, .goog, .googl…

I wonder if we see a change of domains from e.g. drive.google.com to google.drive.

Google can use .plus domain to simplify links to Google+ profile. I would really like to see something like user-name.plus/photos.