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.george is a pretty funny one. apparently Walmart owns it, so you probably won't be able to register a .george domain any time soon. https://icannwiki.org/.geo

.george is a pretty funny one. apparently Walmart owns it, so you probably won't be able to register a .george domain any time soon. https://icannwiki.org/.george https://icannwiki.org/.george do companies even use these in the wild or are they buying these TLDs for nothing? ".brother", ".canon", ".nokia", ".panasonic", ".playstation", ".xbox", ".xerox"... there's even ".sandvikcoromant", which is some sort of Swedish metalwork company.

arcfour 1y ago
Amazon/AWS use them (.aws), so does Google (.google) but I agree, it is pretty funny how many companies seemed to get on board (out of fear of being left out?) and then...didn't use them for some reason?
- 0x3f 1y ago
  Google does use theirs for public-facing landing pages even [1], just not uniformly, but that's very on-brand for Google as an org. Where have you seen .aws in use though? [1] e.g. https://quantumai.google/ https://quantumai.google/
  - zoover2020 1y ago
    AWS uses the TLD internally
  - serv0id 1y ago
    https://skillbuilder.aws/ https://skillbuilder.aws/
  - xp84 1y ago
    notebooklm.google too yeah if I had to guess there's too much that's already pointed at google.com and with their main business being leveraging cookie data for ad money I bet whoever in the org might think it'd be rad to switch to mail.google, search.google, android.google, etc. gets beaten over the head with a stack of $100 bills anytime he brings it up. I wonder, would the other browser vendors agree to treat all of .google as one entity in terms of 'same domain rule' if Google promised they aren't selling subdomains to anyone else? I'm not aware of any TLD treated like that presently. So yeah, seems like the corporate domains, at least of adtech titans, will never be used for much but redirects.
  - abhiyerra 1y ago
    https://calculator.aws https://calculator.aws
  - NoahZuniga 1y ago
    and about.google
0x3f 1y ago
George is the clothing brand of the ASDA supermarket chain in the UK, which Walmart used to own. I'm not sure if it's a brand they use worldwide though; I don't really go to Walmart when in the US. Either way, that's why they own it, presumably.
- xp84 1y ago
  At least as far back as the the 90s Walmart was selling George clothing in the US too. IDK what predates what, though. Or if they are currently. There was also a George magazine, which... I think belonged to RFK (Senior)?
  - xp84 1y ago
    Correction: JFK Junior, of course!
  - ascorbic 1y ago
    It was introduced to Walmart in 1999 when they bought Asda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(fashion_label) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(fashion_label)
- petepete 1y ago
  When a supermarket's own clothing brand has its own TLD. What a time to be alive. Just checked underpants.george and, disappointingly, it's not being used.
- bombcar 1y ago
  https://www.walmart.com/search?q=George https://www.walmart.com/search?q=George finds quite a bit but why they’d pay for that TLD and not for any of the other store brands they have is unknown.
kotaKat 1y ago
https://global.canon/en/c-museum/ https://global.canon/en/c-museum/ Canon does use .canon for a few things, at least.
- moberley 1y ago
  Brother has a similar global website. https://global.brother/ https://global.brother/
  - sneak 1y ago
    Anything to help them win the fight against HP, I’m for.
showerst 1y ago
Aside: Sandvik Coromant is a major industrial conglomerate with billions in revenue. Their cutting tools almost certainly made some things you use daily. Not that it has any bearing on them having a tld, but they’re not some random local metal shop, heh.
picafrost 1y ago
I wouldn't say it's for nothing. Brands with trademarks have a legal incentive under trademark law to acquire their trademarked name everywhere. Not doing so immediately risks a future legal and bad PR battle if some smaller company acquires it first.
- wildzzz 1y ago
  Owning a gTLD isn't the same as registering a trademark. It's on par with petitioning the local government to rename the street your business is on to your business name. There's an incentive to fight for your trademark, Apple would probably sue anyone starting a business with the word Apple in it if there was any chance that the company does anything with technology. However, Apple has no ownership of the word Apple. I could start a pick your own apple orchard called Apple Farms and buy the gTLD so I could have pickyourown.apple.
  - picafrost 1y ago
    I agree that owning a gTLD is not the same as registering a trademark, but I'm claiming that to a company it's the same as protecting their trademark. For the same reason that companies register their names on every new social networking website, even if they don't actively use it. To give a slightly ridiculous example (just for fun), just as someone could make pickyourown.apple they could also register tim.apple and start an excellent phishing campaign.
ascorbic 1y ago
According to that link .george is just a proposed TLD. Presumably it's not proposed anymore, because Walmart no longer owns it.

arcfour 1y ago

Amazon/AWS use them (.aws), so does Google (.google) but I agree, it is pretty funny how many companies seemed to get on board (out of fear of being left out?) and then...didn't use them for some reason?

0x3f 1y ago
Google does use theirs for public-facing landing pages even [1], just not uniformly, but that's very on-brand for Google as an org. Where have you seen .aws in use though? [1] e.g. https://quantumai.google/ https://quantumai.google/
- zoover2020 1y ago
  AWS uses the TLD internally
- serv0id 1y ago
  https://skillbuilder.aws/ https://skillbuilder.aws/
- xp84 1y ago
  notebooklm.google too yeah if I had to guess there's too much that's already pointed at google.com and with their main business being leveraging cookie data for ad money I bet whoever in the org might think it'd be rad to switch to mail.google, search.google, android.google, etc. gets beaten over the head with a stack of $100 bills anytime he brings it up. I wonder, would the other browser vendors agree to treat all of .google as one entity in terms of 'same domain rule' if Google promised they aren't selling subdomains to anyone else? I'm not aware of any TLD treated like that presently. So yeah, seems like the corporate domains, at least of adtech titans, will never be used for much but redirects.
- abhiyerra 1y ago
  https://calculator.aws https://calculator.aws
- NoahZuniga 1y ago
  and about.google

0x3f 1y ago

George is the clothing brand of the ASDA supermarket chain in the UK, which Walmart used to own. I'm not sure if it's a brand they use worldwide though; I don't really go to Walmart when in the US. Either way, that's why they own it, presumably.

xp84 1y ago
At least as far back as the the 90s Walmart was selling George clothing in the US too. IDK what predates what, though. Or if they are currently. There was also a George magazine, which... I think belonged to RFK (Senior)?
- xp84 1y ago
  Correction: JFK Junior, of course!
- ascorbic 1y ago
  It was introduced to Walmart in 1999 when they bought Asda: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(fashion_label) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_(fashion_label)
petepete 1y ago
When a supermarket's own clothing brand has its own TLD. What a time to be alive. Just checked underpants.george and, disappointingly, it's not being used.
bombcar 1y ago
https://www.walmart.com/search?q=George https://www.walmart.com/search?q=George finds quite a bit but why they’d pay for that TLD and not for any of the other store brands they have is unknown.

kotaKat 1y ago

https://global.canon/en/c-museum/ https://global.canon/en/c-museum/ Canon does use .canon for a few things, at least.

moberley 1y ago
Brother has a similar global website. https://global.brother/ https://global.brother/
- sneak 1y ago
  Anything to help them win the fight against HP, I’m for.

showerst 1y ago

Aside: Sandvik Coromant is a major industrial conglomerate with billions in revenue. Their cutting tools almost certainly made some things you use daily. Not that it has any bearing on them having a tld, but they’re not some random local metal shop, heh.

picafrost 1y ago

I wouldn't say it's for nothing. Brands with trademarks have a legal incentive under trademark law to acquire their trademarked name everywhere. Not doing so immediately risks a future legal and bad PR battle if some smaller company acquires it first.

wildzzz 1y ago
Owning a gTLD isn't the same as registering a trademark. It's on par with petitioning the local government to rename the street your business is on to your business name. There's an incentive to fight for your trademark, Apple would probably sue anyone starting a business with the word Apple in it if there was any chance that the company does anything with technology. However, Apple has no ownership of the word Apple. I could start a pick your own apple orchard called Apple Farms and buy the gTLD so I could have pickyourown.apple.
- picafrost 1y ago
  I agree that owning a gTLD is not the same as registering a trademark, but I'm claiming that to a company it's the same as protecting their trademark. For the same reason that companies register their names on every new social networking website, even if they don't actively use it. To give a slightly ridiculous example (just for fun), just as someone could make pickyourown.apple they could also register tim.apple and start an excellent phishing campaign.

ascorbic 1y ago

According to that link .george is just a proposed TLD. Presumably it's not proposed anymore, because Walmart no longer owns it.