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Re: Root Zone Database

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Post by varunvkrishnan »

The list of domains owned by Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) & Amazon (Amazon Registry Services, Inc.) probably give a good idea about their future (predictable) priorities (Google - Ads, Android while Amazon's list looks more shopping oriented)

Any ideas on what they they plan on doing with guge & esq domains?

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Post by purephase »

This is a crazy list. Great to see it all in one place though. I don't pay that much attention to the domain registration space any more, but has the explosion of TLDs achieved the goal of reducing .com cash runs?

It certainly seems like other TLDs have reached a level of acceptance, but my experience is not reflective of the majority of users.

Also, it's crazy to see TLDs with other languages. Very cool, and not surprising at all, but I've never seen that before.

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Post by dastbe »

varunvkrishnan wrote: post #2

The list of domains owned by Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) & Amazon (Amazon Registry Services, Inc.) probably give a good idea about their future (predictable) priorities (Google - Ads, Android while Amazon's list looks more shopping oriented) Any ideas on what they they plan on doing with guge & esq domains?

guge is the pinyin for google in china

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Post by jtokoph »

varunvkrishnan wrote: post #2

The list of domains owned by Google (Charleston Road Registry Inc.) & Amazon (Amazon Registry Services, Inc.) probably give a good idea about their future (predictable) priorities (Google - Ads, Android while Amazon's list looks more shopping oriented) Any ideas on what they they plan on doing with guge & esq domains?

I would guess they would target .esq to Attorneys. Someone else has .attorney so I wonder if Google tried for that one too.

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Post by robalfonso »

purephase wrote: post #3

This is a crazy list. Great to see it all in one place though. I don't pay that much attention to the domain registration space any more, but has the explosion of TLDs achieved the goal of reducing .com cash runs? It certainly seems like other TLDs have reached a level of acceptance, but my experience is not reflective of the majority of users. Also, it's crazy to see TLDs with other languages. Very cool, and not sur…

.com is still king. It's going to be a while until the others get real penetration. And some tld's are never going to take off. Either the pricing is completely unrealistic or the tld is so long you can achieve the same thing in a shorter tld.

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Post by deathanatos » 

  Binky Sky, LLC
  Binky Frostbite, LLC
  Binky Birch, LLC
  Binky Galley, LLC
  Binky Moon, LLC
  Binky Lake, LLC
  Binky Glen, LLC
  Silver Glen, LLC
  Holly Glen, LLC
  Grand Glen, LLC
  Magic Glen, LLC
  Magic Birch, LLC
  Magic Woods, LLC
  Magic Pass, LLC
  Fern Pass, LLC
  Big Pass, LLC
(snip, as it goes on and on) This reads like someone let their Markov chain register TLDs. Is there a rational explanation that isn't some domain-parking company grabbing up names and trying to conceal their identity by spamming the list with LLC shell companies? (And social networks get in a tizzy when I don't use my real name…)

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Post by kijeda »

deathanatos wrote: post #7

Binky Sky, LLC Binky Frostbite, LLC Binky Birch, LLC Binky Galley, LLC Binky Moon, LLC Binky Lake, LLC Binky Glen, LLC Silver Glen, LLC Holly Glen, LLC Grand Glen, LLC Magic Glen, LLC Magic Birch, LLC Magic Woods, LLC Magic Pass, LLC Fern Pass, LLC Big Pass, LLC (snip, as it goes on and on) This reads like someone let their Markov chain register TLDs. Is there a rational explanation that isn't some domain-parking com…

I don't think it is an attempt to conceal their identity, if you look at the details of the registrations you can see these are all operated by Donuts (http://donuts.co). Perhaps it is facilitate management and future adjustments to their portfolio.

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Post by hayleox »

deathanatos wrote: post #7

Binky Sky, LLC Binky Frostbite, LLC Binky Birch, LLC Binky Galley, LLC Binky Moon, LLC Binky Lake, LLC Binky Glen, LLC Silver Glen, LLC Holly Glen, LLC Grand Glen, LLC Magic Glen, LLC Magic Birch, LLC Magic Woods, LLC Magic Pass, LLC Fern Pass, LLC Big Pass, LLC (snip, as it goes on and on) This reads like someone let their Markov chain register TLDs. Is there a rational explanation that isn't some domain-parking com…

All of those companies are subsidiaries of Donuts: http://www.donuts.domains/ There's a complete list of all their TLDs (and the silly LLC names associated with them) here: https://domaintyper.com/new-gTLD/applicant/Donuts

I'm not sure why they formed LLCs for every domain they registered. IANA has lots of regulations and paperwork, and everything is really expensive and slow (it takes years to get a TLD registered). I'd imagine having every domain tied to its own LLC might make things easier (i.e. they can sell their TLDs by just selling the LLC, for example).

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Post by hayleox »

I don't understand why so many corporations have gone through the very-expensive years-long process of getting their brand name as a TLD, and then proceeded to not use their TLD at all. The only brand name TLD I've seen in real world use is .google (https://domains.google, https://blog.google).

If you google "site:.whatever" ("whatever" being the TLD you want), you can see all the sites with that TLD that Google knows about. Very few of them have any other sites besides "nic.whatever" (which is just an information page about the TLD). I am seeing a few exceptions though: http://go.java, http://interactive.cbs

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