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Am I the only one surprised, and disgusted, about the .google TLD?

Terribledactyl 10y ago
This has been a long time in the making, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-domain-space.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-d...
piyush_soni 10y ago
Wow. I didn't even notice it didn't have a .com at the end of "blog.google". I have no idea what's so 'disgusting' about it though.
- dfgonzalez 10y ago
  Simple: I just don't see the point on using these new TLDs, they are confusing, it's not clear how the work and stupidly expensive... Seems just as an snobby thing.
- cooper12 10y ago
  Because we (not we as in the people but ICANN or whoever's in charge) are allowing corporations to use trademarks as top level domains. While before the top level domains belonged to countries or were general, now they can also be populated by those rich enough. Personally I see it as brands encroaching on a previously "public" space. Would Google allow me to register fuck.google or anything that could damage their brand? I highly doubt it. I wouldn't find it so bad if any joe schmo could create their own TLD, but this is an instance of allocating address space to the most powerful and letting control it as free advertising. It's not a technical problem by any means, but I see it as a moral one.
  - trentmb 10y ago
    > Would Google allow me to register fuck.google or anything that could damage their brand? I highly doubt it. It's not like they'd let you register fuck.google.com either.
    - cooper12 10y ago
      Well fuckMicrosoft.com was a thing [0], unless with the .google.com thing you meant as some kind of subdomain on Google's site. I don't think those are available for registration anyway. Also, FWIW, a .sucks TLD exists. [1] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103656/http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103656/http://www.fuckmi... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#.sucks_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#.sucks_domain
SamBam 10y ago
What's disgusting about it?

This has been a long time in the making, https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-domain-space.html https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/expanding-internet-d...

piyush_soni 10y ago

Wow. I didn't even notice it didn't have a .com at the end of "blog.google". I have no idea what's so 'disgusting' about it though.

dfgonzalez 10y ago
Simple: I just don't see the point on using these new TLDs, they are confusing, it's not clear how the work and stupidly expensive... Seems just as an snobby thing.
cooper12 10y ago
Because we (not we as in the people but ICANN or whoever's in charge) are allowing corporations to use trademarks as top level domains. While before the top level domains belonged to countries or were general, now they can also be populated by those rich enough. Personally I see it as brands encroaching on a previously "public" space. Would Google allow me to register fuck.google or anything that could damage their brand? I highly doubt it. I wouldn't find it so bad if any joe schmo could create their own TLD, but this is an instance of allocating address space to the most powerful and letting control it as free advertising. It's not a technical problem by any means, but I see it as a moral one.
- trentmb 10y ago
  > Would Google allow me to register fuck.google or anything that could damage their brand? I highly doubt it. It's not like they'd let you register fuck.google.com either.
  - cooper12 10y ago
    Well fuckMicrosoft.com was a thing [0], unless with the .google.com thing you meant as some kind of subdomain on Google's site. I don't think those are available for registration anyway. Also, FWIW, a .sucks TLD exists. [1] [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103656/http://www.fuckmicrosoft.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20060114103656/http://www.fuckmi... [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#.sucks_domain https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#.sucks_domain

SamBam 10y ago

What's disgusting about it?