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so now any company can get its own TLD? that's cool.
by tzury 1y ago
so now any company can get its own TLD?
that's cool.
- kube-system 1y agoBrand TLDs became a thing in 2012 under ICANNs New gTLD Program
- dsp 1y agoThere was an opportunity to apply over a decade ago. The plan is to open another window for applications next year.
- tzury 1y agoNow I see, there is a whole list of them out there https://icannwiki.org/New_gTLD_Brand_Applications https://icannwiki.org/New_gTLD_Brand_Applications
- 1970-01-01 1y agoI've only seen it used by companies that cannot get out of their own way. Instead of news.honda.com (their actual domain) or hondanews.com (actual domain, redirect from before, all owned by them, also has news) or honda.global (makes sense, but nothing there) or honda.com/news (makes sense, but nothing there) they go waste money on a new gTLD. So we have global.honda/en/newsroom/. . At least they're using it: https://domainmetadata.com/list-of-all-honda-domains https://domainmetadata.com/list-of-all-honda-domains
- acheron 1y agoOn one hand, it ruins DNS, but on the other hand, it makes ICANN a lot of money.
- criddell 1y agoHow does it ruin DNS?
- hinkley 1y agoFord, Mercedes and Apple all own /8 address blocks. I thought IBM used to own one as well but they must have given it up.
- miyuru 1y agoI use dns.google pretty often, very useful when implemented correctly.