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I'm just confused. Why on earth would you go to .blockbuster? What domain would they use? "movies.blockbuster" ? It's so strange - some of these are extremely l

I'm just confused. Why on earth would you go to .blockbuster? What domain would they use? "movies.blockbuster" ? It's so strange - some of these are extremely long.

shoopy 14y ago
minecraft.blockbuster
nkassis 14y ago
I think it's more that they felt obligated to register it to protect their trademark than them actually wanting to use it.
- marshray 14y ago
  Which sorta implies that ICANN is basically just conducting a trademark extortion racket.
- wmf 14y ago
  That seems pretty paranoid when you could just file an objection instead.
nilved 14y ago
They could just use `http://blockbuster/` http://blockbuster/`. I don't mean to endorse GTLDs, of course; it's apparent that they're solely a caustic money-making scheme and have no fathomable benefits.
- rhplus 14y ago
  It's not working for me right now, but there were a couple of ccTLDs that has WWW services running on the IP addresses assigned to the FQDN for their ccTLD. I seem to remember it was http://uz http://uz. and a couple of others... maybe http://io http://io. ?
  - TazeTSchnitzel 14y ago
    For a brief period of time, http://to./ http://to./ was the world's shortest URL shortener.