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How does google get the right to create net TLDs? Can I create a TLD?

jdiff 3y ago
You can, if you can demonstrate the ability to maintain a gTLD registry and can cough up hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.
- timthelion 3y ago
  Who does that money go to?
  - advisedwang 3y ago
    It goes to ICANN. You can learn about their program at https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
- Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
  You don't need that. Just run a dns server which returns the appropriate results for the tld of your choice. Getting others to recognize and repeat might need a little "grease".
duskwuff 3y ago
They applied for them as part of ICANN's New gTLD program in 2012. Due to overwhelming demand (and bureaucratic slowness), it's been a very slow process getting those applications approved and implemented. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
Yes you can create a TLD. The question is what assumptions are implied by "TLD". Will it be used by other people. How many. Will there be a registry. Will the registry "rent" domain names as some sort of business. Will you try to get the nameservers for the TLD listed in someone else's root.zone file, e.g., ICANN's. It's possible to create a TLD that makes none of these assumptions. For example, I have some TLDs I created on the home network. The idea of a "right" to create a TLD assumes some sort of valid legal or regulatory framework. But this does not exist. There is an imaginary authority that relies 100% on voluntary compliance, embodied in a private US corporation called "ICANN", but it's imagined "authority" has no basis in the law of any country. It will gladly take peoples' money but it offers no means of enforcing the "rights" it purports to "grant". Trademark law is perhaps the only legal framework governing what you do with your TLD. But the idea that a TLD must resemble a trademark is yet another assumption, not a requirement. For example, the TLDs I created for use on the home network cannot be confused with any trademark.
- 1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
  And domain names do not need to look like trademarks either.
chupapimunyenyo 3y ago
It's worth mentioning that you can't become a domain registrar yourself. It's a privilege for the rich to make even more money

You can, if you can demonstrate the ability to maintain a gTLD registry and can cough up hundreds of thousands to millions of dollars.

timthelion 3y ago
Who does that money go to?
- advisedwang 3y ago
  It goes to ICANN. You can learn about their program at https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
Am4TIfIsER0ppos 3y ago
You don't need that. Just run a dns server which returns the appropriate results for the tld of your choice. Getting others to recognize and repeat might need a little "grease".

duskwuff 3y ago

They applied for them as part of ICANN's New gTLD program in 2012. Due to overwhelming demand (and bureaucratic slowness), it's been a very slow process getting those applications approved and implemented. https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago

Yes you can create a TLD. The question is what assumptions are implied by "TLD". Will it be used by other people. How many. Will there be a registry. Will the registry "rent" domain names as some sort of business. Will you try to get the nameservers for the TLD listed in someone else's root.zone file, e.g., ICANN's. It's possible to create a TLD that makes none of these assumptions. For example, I have some TLDs I created on the home network. The idea of a "right" to create a TLD assumes some sort of valid legal or regulatory framework. But this does not exist. There is an imaginary authority that relies 100% on voluntary compliance, embodied in a private US corporation called "ICANN", but it's imagined "authority" has no basis in the law of any country. It will gladly take peoples' money but it offers no means of enforcing the "rights" it purports to "grant". Trademark law is perhaps the only legal framework governing what you do with your TLD. But the idea that a TLD must resemble a trademark is yet another assumption, not a requirement. For example, the TLDs I created for use on the home network cannot be confused with any trademark.

1vuio0pswjnm7 3y ago
And domain names do not need to look like trademarks either.

chupapimunyenyo 3y ago

It's worth mentioning that you can't become a domain registrar yourself. It's a privilege for the rich to make even more money