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Post by yellowapple »

mixmastamyk wrote: post #198
aclelland wrote: post #154

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Not normally but they do ban your entire account if their bots believe you've been very naughty. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-47278362 Despite the ban being due to a violation of YT terms of service they lost their entire Google account. > "But because my Google account was terminated as well I didn't have access to my email so I couldn't see what happened."

Now imagine you had a profitable business on Google Cloud and this happened.

There are even horror stories about personal accounts getting banned and the ban subsequently propagating to the corporate GApps account of the violator's employer, thus completely shutting down corporate email and document sharing.

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Post by jakejarvis »

CUViper wrote: post #24
marksomnian wrote: post #13

There is one thing that annoys me about generic TLDs like .dev, .website, .cloud, .network etc. For example, Salesforce have https://crm.dev - are they the only CRM in the world? Hell no, but they're the biggest, so they can be the only one in the .dev space. Same with workers.dev.

Some computer company gets to have apple.com, the car company does not have nissan.com, etc. etc.

For those who haven’t heard about it, the nissan.com fiasco was a crazy yet fascinating story: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nissan_Motors_vs._Nissan_Com...

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Post by guessmyname »

OedipusRex wrote: post #117

How did Google get in charge of this? Why did they get to set the price points for registering these domains? ICANN really sold out for this one.

You can see all the ICANN auction results here [1]:

• Google paid $25 million for “.app” [1]

• Amazon paid ~$5 million for “.buy”

• Amazon paid $2.2 million for “.spot”

• Verisign paid $135 million for “.web”

• Automattic paid $19 million for “.blog”

• ICM paid $3 million for “.sex”

[1] https://gtldresult.icann.org/application-result/applications...

[2] https://www.businessinsider.com/google-just-paid-25-million-...

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Post by john88 »

What happens if there is a conflict between companies that have submitted a trademark of a generic term to the Trademark Clearinghouse? (two companies that have a trademark of the same generic name, but on a different field for example) How is this settled?

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Post by PunksATawnyFill »

C1sc0cat wrote: post #48
benologist wrote: post #15

On a recent thread Google personnel mentioned that ICANN forces all domain providers to backup their data so that any domain provider going bankrupt won't affect domains. However there was no mention of what procedures Google Domains themselves have put in place to protect their customers in case their customers get irreversibly banned somewhere within Google's vast empire. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=191787…

I used to work for a registry, and ICANN had very strict escrow rules for registrys'. This was for a real TLD but I suspect that there is something similar for vanity domains.

ICANN is a scam. It should have abolished canned TLDs altogether, but instead turned them into a profiteering scheme.

There’s no reason that a domain can’t end in ANY string. Bingo, no more fake “shortage.”

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Post by dewey »

malinens wrote: post #218

This sucks. We used .dev domain internally in dev/testing environments and one day we were forced to switch domains because google bought it

That's your fault for using something that's a valid domain and not a reserved one for exactly that use case decided on 20 years ago:

https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc2606

.test, .example, .invalid, .localhost

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Post by dewey »

technofiend wrote: post #145
qnk wrote: post #88

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Mine is not available either and I doubt someone paid $11,500 for an Italian name with the dev extension. How come? My guess is some providers are "reserving" them.

Which is exactly why I won't check on any domains I want until I'm ready to buy them: I don't need a "domain taster" locking them up for profit.

You can just use whois.
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