Is "TLD hogging" going to be the new "domain hogging"?
Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
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Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#12The list of all their owned TLDs are at [0]. There is an icannwiki page with all the ones they’ve applied for, but not just the ones they currently own. 0: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc
IMHO Europe should do a hard fork of DNS before it is too late. States already mess with the DNS of major telcos for censorship anyways. Regaining control over the new purely capitalist take of the Internet would finally be something good.
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#13Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#14The list of all their owned TLDs are at [0]. There is an icannwiki page with all the ones they’ve applied for, but not just the ones they currently own. 0: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc
How can a commercial company own a top level domain like ".app"? I get that they own .youtube or .google but isn't that way too generic? Like a company owning the copyright for the word "Company"?
Because gTLDs were sold to the highest bidder; there’s no requirement for them to be sold for the good of humanity. For-profit companies like Verisign own .com and donuts owns a few hundred https://donuts.domains/what-we-do/top-level-domain-portfolio...
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#15And .dev, which IIRC they were not going to make public but then did. And requires SSL
I get the issue of making .dev public, what's the issue with requiring ssl certs beside it being unnecessary in some cases?
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#16In a sense, dangerous. Google has a history of (and currently practices) censoring viewpoints it disagrees with. Will its censorship reach extend from omitting / deprioritizing search results to entirely canceling those using its TLDs that it deems undesirable?
Source? What i see, is that it's blocking illegal things.
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#17And .dev, which IIRC they were not going to make public but then did. And requires SSL
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Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#18And .dev, which IIRC they were not going to make public but then did. And requires SSL
I get the issue of making .dev public, what's the issue with requiring ssl certs beside it being unnecessary in some cases?
If you were using .dev locally before then you almost certainly didn’t have TLS, since it’s usually local testing.
By making TLS mandatory you not only break local dev environments (that use that TLD which maybe have a legitimate domain outside of your network) you also make it so that it’s not even possible to run locally unless you do a lot of CA trickery to get a legit looking TLS cert.
My personal opinion was that this was a good move, as it forced developers to stop using .dev as soon as it was being used on the global internet- which avoided a lot of really awkward and annoying dual-home misconfigurations.
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#19In a sense, dangerous. Google has a history of (and currently practices) censoring viewpoints it disagrees with. Will its censorship reach extend from omitting / deprioritizing search results to entirely canceling those using its TLDs that it deems undesirable?
Domains aren't like your Google account.
Re: Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol
#20If ICANN wasn't just a giant extortion racket they would have yanked this from Google squatting on it years ago - clearly they haven't actually met any of the listed goals considering they have never used the TLD (or opened them for general availability like their original application implies). In reality all ICANN cares about is $$$
Hasn't that been obvious for years? As far as I remember there were attempts to sell of lucrative parts of ICANNs responsibilities to private businesses that where coincidentally owned by the very people that made the decision to sell. The whole organization is openly corrupt and doesn't really try to hide it.