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I'm not confusing anything I'm trying to put it in terms you will understand. One company does control .com right now, and .net. Their name is VeriSign. Just l

• OGinparadise 14y ago
  Wrong, they do not control anything, they administer it. I can register any .com that is free and Verisign cannot stop me. Google can refuse to allow anyone else from having televisions.shop or whatever.shop
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  • wilfra 14y ago
    That's a theoretical problem that wont matter in practice. Google only has two practical options: they can make .shop completely open and operate it just like .co or .io, or they can lock it down and use it only for themselves, in which case it will essentially just be a vanity domain, not an extension. If they choose the latter, just use any one of the hundreds of other extensions that will be available. I hate that ICANN is doing this - but not because of some theoretical power it technically gives Google.
    • unclebucknasty 14y ago
      I understand what you're saying, but not sure it will be that benign in practice. That is, given that the domain format requires a minimum of two parts (the TLD and one other), ownership of entire swaths of possibilities/permutations can be locked down via complete ownership of one TLD.