New gTLD Applied-For Strings • Hacker News Board

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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

Interesting to note that Google has applied for 101 TLDs (search for @google.com in that list) including a lot of generic words like car,book, dad, dog, eat, family, film, fly. While some words are related to Google's business many aren't.

A little over $21 MM[1] in application and first year fees. $185,000 for the application fee and $25000 for the annual fee.

[1] http://mashable.com/2011/06/20/icann-top-level-domains/

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:59 PM UTC

jnorthrop wrote: post #2

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.

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Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by dmaz » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:59 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…

Skimming through the page, Amazon is going for a landgrab too with 76 gTLDs. Interesting to see how the major web player prioritized this. Microsoft went for 11 highly relevant gTLDs and Facebook for none.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by fijter » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 12:59 PM UTC

The Dutch government wants ".overheidnl" (govermentnl), not only it's one ugly gTLD, they already have overheid.nl! What a waste of tax money...

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by omh » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:00 PM UTC

simias wrote: post #5

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

At $108k per domain, that's about $200 million for ICANN.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by Karunamon » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:01 PM UTC

Man this is going to be a mess. Guess I'd better get used to the fact that the days of easily rememberable TLDs are gone.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by Wilya » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:01 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…

These applications (the Google ones) are registered under "Charleston Road Registry Inc." Anybody knows why ? The mail address is in @google.com, so I suppose Google has some relation to it, but still..

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by exDM69 » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:04 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 are many companies applying for .app TLD. Edit: Google is one of them under an alias.

What was noteworthy was that many companies seem to be formed for this purpose only. There's "DotApp Inc", ".app registry inc" and a bunch of other names like that.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by TomGullen » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

I love the long ones like '.BARCLAYCARD', '.BLOOMINGDALES' pretty funny. Looks like a corporate suit decision to buy those.

Not sure what the other part of the domain will be for these as well:

"Visit www.bloomingdales!"

Lots of confusion on the way!

I'm not too impressed with ones such as '.CANCERRESEARCH' paid for by the 'Australian Cancer Research Foundation'. What a waste of money.

Re: New gTLD Applied-For Strings

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Post by makecheck » Wed, Jun 13, 2012, 1:04 PM UTC

Yeesh...in case there was any doubt beforehand that this is a terrible idea, the initial list is now proof. They have taken something that has a valid technical reason to exist and turned it into a cesspool.

Hopefully those in control of infrastructure take a stand and simply reject these "domains" entirely. Shouldn't be hard to set up sanity-restoring filters...let us please just pretend these are spam domains and never acknowledge their existence.

Ironically anyone vain enough to reserve "." is surely ALSO going to keep a death grip on ".com" so this will do nothing to improve the size of the name space.