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Heh, I don't know why it's at all surprising but I, for some reason, expected there to be some kind of restrictions regarding TLD ownership/providership. I rea
by ZoF 10y ago
Heh, I don't know why it's at all surprising but I, for some reason, expected there to be some kind of restrictions regarding TLD ownership/providership.
I really dislike this, that a single entity owns a TLD when they don't have any justification for it other than 'we bought it'.
At least 99% of other TLD's are maintained by countries/orgs/etc. who at least have an arguably justified ownership.
Private entities owning all TLD's here we come.
Here comes the end of any potential anonymity that DNS provided.
- pietroalbini 10y agoVerisign owns both .com and .net, so that's not a new thing with gTDLs.
- jmelloy 10y agoWho do you think owns .com? All the new ones, and some of the country codes, are companies. You can't just go out tomorrow and buy a TLD - there's a whole process to prove you have the technical capabilities and financial capital to run the operation.
- ewindisch 10y agoICANN began the process for this in 2008 and the first gTLDs were sold in, I think, 2012(?). However, yes, you're right, private entities will end up owning all of the TLDs and it will put likely startups at a disadvantage to incumbents as they become more common.