TLDs like .google and .microsoft really makes me think about how ridiculously gigantic those companies really are. They’re so big they got their own freaking TLD.
This just seems like a repeat of these companies buying all the similar/unicode like domains to ensure no one can grab a domain with resemblance to the name.
Considering a most of them aren’t even used for anything practical, I wonder if this was just another ploy by ICANN to make money lmao.
Can a moron get some context? I don’t know much about internet or TLD… I’d ask AI but I want the right answer lol.
The last part of a Web address is a “TLD”, or “top-level domain”. There used to be relatively few of them, namely
.com,.org,.edu,.net,.gov, and.mil. One of the functions of TLDs is to categorise websites so you know what sort of site you’re visiting. The list of valid TLDs is a Web standard and creating a new TLD is not easy.As time progressed, more and more TLDs were created. You have familiar ones like country-code TLDs which are for each individual country or region, such as
.cafor Canada or.esfor Spain.In the past decade, several weirder and more arbitrary TLDs which are just random words with no categorisation purpose whatsoever have popped up, like
.party,.xyz, or whatever.The fact that Google, a private company, can have its own TLD (
.google), is an indicator of how supremely influential the company is over the creation of Web standards. Not only does that TLD mean nothing and has no categorisation potential whatsoever (the company largely does not even use it), but based on the original model of only six TLDs, a private company wanting to have its own TLD would have then been considered the pinnacle of hubris.Thank-you so much, that was very informative and helpful!
Nah. It’s more ridiculous that ICANN gives out domains other than stuff like edu/com/org/gov in the first place.
You must admit some are kinda niche though, like .cooking for recipe sites
Anyone with $150K to blow can have a vanity TLD it’s not that big a feat. And it’s about as fought douchy as vanity plates.
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Apple and some other companies own entire /8 blocks of IPv4 addresses: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_assigned_/8_IPv4_address_blocks
“Well actually…” I understand that some of the large companies are leveraging it to ease filtering for customers. No one wants to block all .com, but you can opt to unblock/block all of .microsoft or .google, that would be useful.
Third or fourth hand information, so I don’t know how far along any of these companies in implementing, but… It kinda feels like they’re trying to build a centralized version a la CompuServe or Prodigy or even AOL over the internet that a company can choose to connect to.
You can block *.google.com as easily as *.google, so I don’t think that makes much sense.
Lots of companies have TLD’s. It’s mostly a reflection of starting early, before TLD camping became a business model.
.bbc also exists, their fediverse instance is social.bbc
A TLD dedicated to Big Black Cock? What will they think of next?
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I think you’re thinking of D’s, not TLD’s.
Yeah, D’s NUTS!
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