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.
“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.
Nah. It’s more ridiculous that ICANN gives out domains other than stuff like edu/com/org/gov in the first place.
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
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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