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can't wait to be reachable at come@on.fhqwhgads
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This is the kind of stuff you’ll see and know I hit the powerball
How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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Without rigorous ID requirements, that restriction can be circumvented easily.
With rigorous ID requirements, that restriction can be circumvented easily.
I think the problem is they domain sales are for-profit, there’s no incentive to prevent squatting as it’s presumably a huge profit centre.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#173.george is a pretty funny one. apparently Walmart owns it, so you probably won't be able to register a .george domain any time soon. https://icannwiki.org/.george do companies even use these in the wild or are they buying these TLDs for nothing? ".brother", ".canon", ".nokia", ".panasonic", ".playstation", ".xbox", ".xerox"... there's even ".sandvikcoromant", which is some sort of Swedish metalwork company.
I wouldn't say it's for nothing. Brands with trademarks have a legal incentive under trademark law to acquire their trademarked name everywhere. Not doing so immediately risks a future legal and bad PR battle if some smaller company acquires it first.
Owning a gTLD isn't the same as registering a trademark. It's on par with petitioning the local government to rename the street your business is on to your business name. There's an incentive to fight for your trademark, Apple would probably sue anyone starting a business with the word Apple in it if there was any chance that the company does anything with technology. However, Apple has no ownership of the word Apple. I could start a pick your own apple orchard called Apple Farms and buy the gTLD so I could have pickyourown.apple.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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I wouldn't say it's for nothing. Brands with trademarks have a legal incentive under trademark law to acquire their trademarked name everywhere. Not doing so immediately risks a future legal and bad PR battle if some smaller company acquires it first.
Owning a gTLD isn't the same as registering a trademark. It's on par with petitioning the local government to rename the street your business is on to your business name. There's an incentive to fight for your trademark, Apple would probably sue anyone starting a business with the word Apple in it if there was any chance that the company does anything with technology. However, Apple has no ownership of the word Apple…
I agree that owning a gTLD is not the same as registering a trademark, but I'm claiming that to a company it's the same as protecting their trademark. For the same reason that companies register their names on every new social networking website, even if they don't actively use it.
To give a slightly ridiculous example (just for fun), just as someone could make pickyourown.apple they could also register tim.apple and start an excellent phishing campaign.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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Run your own DNS then, if you're using your own DNS? Why are your queries for internal systems leaking out to the internet?
I think that the scenario here is where the queries are explicitly not leaking, and you've raised a red herring. If I understand correctly, the scenario is an internal machine named "george", which is being properly search-pathed and looked up as "george.example.org." with nothing leaking anywhere , becoming vulnerable to Walmart being able to issue certificates in the name "george", because the DNS client library's…
This isn't a red herring at all. This is DNS resolution and client PKIX implementation. You could fix your whole network to not import anything from outside, ban all BYOD, etc, or you could fire ICANN clowns who think they need to make changes to the reserved list because, why? Money, corruption, self importance?
HN is full of people from SaaS startups who in essence want to buy the perfect 900 number. But DNS and delegation goes far deeper than selling one name for $20 and going to other $20 names to store your code and email at other SaaS providers.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
#176money.
if you think that answer too short, then read the list of tlds, and then reread the answer. repeat cycle if you need more training for your neural net.
Re: How did .agakhan, .ismaili and .imamat get their own TLDs?
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there was a fight between Apple, the computer company and Apple, the record company (initially owned by The Beatles). They initially resolved it by The Beatles allowing the other to one to keep its name on the condition they would refrain from entering the music business. We all know how that turned out. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Records
How did it turn out? Seems like both still have their trademark and everyone lived happily ever after
Apple owns all of the related trademarks, and licenses the relevant ones to Apple Records.