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> I'm the lead engineer of the Google Registry ... Feel free to ask any questions Oooh, oooh. I got a bunch. I have no idea if you can answer any of them thoug

> I'm the lead engineer of the Google Registry ... Feel free to ask any questions Oooh, oooh. I got a bunch. I have no idea if you can answer any of them though. - Why aren't you using the .google tld more? Only place I ever saw it is registry., domains. and blog.. - I was going to ask why com.google doesn't resolve, but I see you fixed that since I last checked! How about google.google now? Why aren't you guys having more fun with this? :) - Why is Google Domains still not available in 98% of the world's countries? - Is owning .app and .foo part of some kind of evil master plan or are you guys just buying TLDs for fun? Because they're two fantastic TLDs and making both of them available for purchase would certainly be nice. - ... and, uh, can you guys buy .cdn and make it available for purchase, too?

CydeWeys 9y ago
Domain names are sticky. It tends not to be worth it to change the domain name for sites that have already existed for a long time. For new sites, when you're choosing a new domain name anyway, it's easier to make it be on a new TLD. com.google was used for an April Fools joke in 2015. We redirected it to the main homepage after that ended because it was widely linked from news articles and social media, and we didn't want to create a bunch of dead links. I'd love to have more fun with this stuff, and believe me, on the registry team we've had all sorts of fun ideas for sites like google.google and others. I can't speak for Google Domains; they're a separate team that we do not work closely with. See e.g. https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-registry-registrar-separation-21feb11-en.pdf https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-regi... There's no evil master plan; we're still trying to figure out the gTLD business just like all the other registry operators. Releasing them as generic strings is certainly the easiest thing that could be done, but maybe there's something cooler? Who knows when the next round of gTLD expansion will occur. It'll probably be many years. Until then, no new gTLDs can be created. .cdn is one of the ones that, in hindsight, at least one person probably should've thought of to apply for back in 2012. And I'm sure someone will take it in the next round.
- dankohn1 9y ago
  >There's no evil master plan; we're still trying to figure out the gTLD business just like all the other registry operators. I think you meant to say, there is no cabal [0][1]. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20061016181703/http://from.to/cabal/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061016181703/http://from.to/ca... (Cmd-A to see the hidden text) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal
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CydeWeys 9y ago

Domain names are sticky. It tends not to be worth it to change the domain name for sites that have already existed for a long time. For new sites, when you're choosing a new domain name anyway, it's easier to make it be on a new TLD. com.google was used for an April Fools joke in 2015. We redirected it to the main homepage after that ended because it was widely linked from news articles and social media, and we didn't want to create a bunch of dead links. I'd love to have more fun with this stuff, and believe me, on the registry team we've had all sorts of fun ideas for sites like google.google and others. I can't speak for Google Domains; they're a separate team that we do not work closely with. See e.g. https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-registry-registrar-separation-21feb11-en.pdf https://archive.icann.org/en/topics/new-gtlds/gac-board-regi... There's no evil master plan; we're still trying to figure out the gTLD business just like all the other registry operators. Releasing them as generic strings is certainly the easiest thing that could be done, but maybe there's something cooler? Who knows when the next round of gTLD expansion will occur. It'll probably be many years. Until then, no new gTLDs can be created. .cdn is one of the ones that, in hindsight, at least one person probably should've thought of to apply for back in 2012. And I'm sure someone will take it in the next round.

dankohn1 9y ago
>There's no evil master plan; we're still trying to figure out the gTLD business just like all the other registry operators. I think you meant to say, there is no cabal [0][1]. [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20061016181703/http://from.to/cabal/ https://web.archive.org/web/20061016181703/http://from.to/ca... (Cmd-A to see the hidden text) [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/There_Is_No_Cabal

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