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Off-topic, but this ongoing trend of brands getting TLDs is really starting to infuriate me. It's not what TLDs are for! Sony is a Japanese company, so it shoul
by zdimension 8mo ago
Off-topic, but this ongoing trend of brands getting TLDs is really starting to infuriate me. It's not what TLDs are for! Sony is a Japanese company, so it should use sony.com or sony.jp.
- ErneX 8mo agoThat’s not what the ICANN thinks, and this started in 2012: https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/about/program
- urbandw311er 8mo agoAny idea why Google and Microsoft and Apple don’t yet have TLDs then?
- mohaba 8mo agoGoogle does. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.google
- slater 8mo agoApple does. https://apple.nic https://apple.nic
- tim-- 8mo agoI think you meant https://nic.apple https://nic.apple :) Worth pointing out that the ICANN agreement for all these new TLDs require a website live on whois.nic.<tld> under Specification 4. eg, Google's TLD delegation agreement (https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/google/google-agmt-html-24jul14-en.htm https://itp.cdn.icann.org/en/files/registry-agreements/googl...). Most TLDs will also put live nic.<tld>, but it's not required. edit: huh, seems like a lot of TLDs are not following their ICANN agreements.
- urbandw311er 8mo agoWeirdly if you browse to nic.apple there is a link on that page to “Whois for .apple” which points to http://whois.nic.apple/ http://whois.nic.apple/ which seems to be dead.
- ssl-3 8mo agoAlso Microsoft: https://nic.microsoft https://nic.microsoft
- NordSteve 8mo agoAnd https://word.cloud.microsoft/ https://word.cloud.microsoft/
- urbandw311er 8mo agoEDIT: I couldn’t have been more wrong — all three have TLDs. Not really sure if they are being used for much though! Most of the action still seems to be on their .com domains
- ralph84 8mo agoThere's no inherent reason to restrict the number of TLDs. The best way to combat rent seeking from registries is to allow any organization that has the technical capability to operate a registry.
- cwnyth 8mo agoWhy do companies and organizations get special treatment over regular people? I think a simpler fix is just to ban any companies that register domains from squatting on them.
- toast0 8mo agoWere regular people prohibited from applying for TLDs when applications were open? Not that I know many people who would have been interested in paying the fees.
- ece 8mo agoThe bigger problem is the rent seeking some registrars are doing now by increasing prices. Not sure what domain portability might look like (maybe requiring multiple registrars per tld), but something like it would solve this problem.