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The fact that a company needs their own gTLD is silly. Sites like google have a perfectly good domain. Why use iphone.apple if apple can already do iphone.apple
by BetaMechazawa 11y ago
The fact that a company needs their own gTLD is silly. Sites like google have a perfectly good domain. Why use iphone.apple if apple can already do iphone.apple.com or apple.com/iphone? At the end of the day the consumer will not start guessing what domain he/she has to use to get what they want. The average consumer uses a search engine and types in "apple iphone". They don't care about iphone.apple they just want to go to the product page.
- vacri 11y agoWell, it's not about need. It's about a story that goes like this: ICANN: Hey, has anyone noticed that our wallets aren't very heavy? Google: We have a bucketload of money just laying around that will fill your wallets, and wouldn't mind our own gTLD. It'd be cute. ICANN: You had us at 'bucketload of money' We needed more gTLDs anyway. So what if a few mega-companies get their own versions?
- ChikkaChiChi 11y agoBecause ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks. Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.
- josteink 11y ago> Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains. Good thing icann just increased the available domain-space from "limited" to "unlimited" then. That sounds good for almost everyone, or at least icann.
- sukilot 11y agoBasically, "" is now a TLD, and ICANN is the registrar, so it can extract the rents.
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