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Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by 0cf8612b2e1e »

imbusy111 wrote: post #26
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does this land legally now? Could Microsoft go to ICANN and demand you hand it over for the registration fee or is it first come first serve?

Yes, they can demand you hand it over and you will hand it over.

Even if Brad Ing bought the domain to host his personal blog?

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by spurgu »

imbusy111 wrote: post #26
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does this land legally now? Could Microsoft go to ICANN and demand you hand it over for the registration fee or is it first come first serve?

Yes, they can demand you hand it over and you will hand it over.

That's insane to me.

Edit: I kind of get it with .com domains, but all TLDs?

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by cbsks »

agilob wrote: post #12
ahmedfromtunis wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

They already got the bank.ing domain name.

but do they have fuckof\f.ing for submitting complaints? Edit: HN doesn't accept FO as one word, it replaces the last `f` with `i`. Try it yourself.

Seems to work for me: Fuckoff fuckoff.ing

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by bluish29 »

riffic wrote: post #32
bluish29 wrote: post #11

So as I understand, they sold the Google domain business to Squarespace but will keep Google Registry with all its questioning new TLDs like .zip.

there's a clear (to the general public, it's absolutely not at all clear) separation of concerns between registries, registrars, and registrants. Google Domains was a registrar. the Registry itself has some arcane and obfuscated corporate name that was something entirely different from Google LLC (Charleston Road Registry Inc)

> the Registry itself has some arcane and obfuscated corporate name that was something entirely different from Google LLC (Charleston Road Registry Inc)

That's interesting, more interesting is that Google created this Inc to workaround ICANN requirements

"Charleston Road Registry (CRR), also known as Google Registry, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Google. Because ICANN requires that registrars and registries remain separate entities, and Google is an ICANN-accredited registrar, CRR exists as a separate company from Google. We offer equivalent terms to all registrars in terms of pricing, awarding domains, or any other domain operations; we'll partner with any ICANN-accredited registrars that are interested in our domains and meet any additional criteria that we set for a TLD." [1]

[1] https://www.registry.google/faqs/

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by bakugo »

izolate wrote: post #38

Nobody is actually doing anything interesting with these. It all seems to be marketing landing pages intended to direct you to the real URL.

Turns out companies don't want to abandon whatever perfectly good domain they've already been using for decades just so they can have a funny TLD, who would've thought. Only new brands can really benefit from it.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by expertentipp »

Sander_Marechal wrote: post #2

Great. There's a Dutch bank called ING. I can't wait for all the phish.ing to start. IMHO all those new TLDs are just a huge mistake and a blatant money-grab.

Mobile app is already first class citizen at ING in some EU countries. One is unable to make transactions or even is locked out completely from all online channels after losing access to their mobile app, or if their app simply stops responding on tapping the "Confirm" button. Web is merely second class citizen. No idea how they arrived to this retarded architectue. Submitting any kind of architectural feedback to a bank is hopeless and helpless, these fuckers always know better.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by rascul »

imbusy111 wrote: post #26
0cf8612b2e1e wrote: post #21

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Where does this land legally now? Could Microsoft go to ICANN and demand you hand it over for the registration fee or is it first come first serve?

Yes, they can demand you hand it over and you will hand it over.

Uzi Nissan didn't hand over his domain.

Re: The .ing top-level domain

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Post by DerekBickerton »

I've reached generic TLD fatigue. There's a new one each week. I regularly buy domains with OVH since they have a wide array of TLDs at a good price[0]. Over the years I let many of them expire because either 1) I let my dreams die, or 2) I couldn't afford to renew it. Mostly it's because I let my dreams die, not financial shortcomings though.

[0] https://www.ovhcloud.com/en/domains/tld/

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