I feel you misunderstood the GP. Rewriting/expanding the statement using my words, this is what they said: "I don't know why people (developers) thought they c

I feel you misunderstood the GP. Rewriting/expanding the statement using my words, this is what they said: "I don't know why people (developers) thought they could start using random TLDs for local/testing purposes". Yes, Google got the TLD and controls it now. The GP isn't criticizing Google (although I still think "we bought a TLD for internal use" is worth debating), they criticize people like the blog author for using 'random' (i.e. "not meant for that purpose") TLDs in their development process.