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Google Buys Illegal +.com Domain Name on Domain Aftermarket
- sp332 15y agoThis begs the question, who did they buy it from? Also, will this show up in DNS soon? Because typing +.com to get to Google Plus would be convenient even if Verisign doesn't like it.
- bhartzer 15y agoThe problem is that + is not an allowed character under IDN rules, and it certainly not allowed in the .com TLD. Google most likely will NOT be able to renews that domain under Verisign .com rules.
- bschlinker 15y agoHow was it registered initially if it is prohibited under Verisign rules?
- bhartzer 15y agoLooks to me like it was purchased initially in 2006, which was before IDNA2008. It currently expires in 2016, and I would suspect that it would be tough to renew that domain when it comes up for renewal, because + (the plus sign) is not allowed in the .com TLD.
- e28eta 15y agoI'm not familiar with domain name rules, but it sounds to me like Google has ~5 years to lobby to get the rules changed, or to make +.com so ubiquitous that refusing renewal would be a worse idea than permitting it.
- brown9-2 15y ago"Illegal" in a "violates Internet standards" meaning, not "against the law of a government that has jurisdiction over Google"
- ojilles 15y agoI don't follow the logic in the article. As I read it the author reasons: "+.com is not legal, therefore it's a mistake to buy it". However, by the very fact that they were able to buy it, they have a good reason to buy it (e.g. someone else could beat them to it). Therefore, buying the domain sounds like an excellent idea to me. What am I missing?
- gte910h 15y agoWhy wouldn't they buy it? It's not like they're going to USE it. They're just preventing mischief.
- terinjokes 15y agoIt was created in December 2006, wouldn't that predate something written in 2008 that prohibits it?
- iuytghyjuyh 15y agoWhy do they care what verisign say? If you type an address in to chrome, or an an Android phone Google can decide how to resolve it anyway they want. Who needs DNS when you own the connection?
- joshu 15y agoillegal? i hope someone goes to jail for this!!!
- wccrawford 15y agoSomeone didn't get your humor, apparently. For those that didn't catch it, this isn't illegal at all. It's simply not allowed by the 'rules'. The pithy comment above was a clever poke at using the word 'illegal' to describe something that wasn't illegal at all.
- mauriciob 15y agoAll I read in this article was "+ is NOT allowed in the .com TLD".
- bhartzer 15y agoThat's correct, under IDNA2008, the + symbol is not allowed in the .com TLD. So, it's supposed to be deleted at some point.
- lanstein 15y agoIn Chrome, it takes you to a page of Google results, where the first result is yahoo.com :)