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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by digi_owl on Monday July 18, 2016 @05:32PM (#12118174)
If you are thinking about .xyz and similar, you still have to have another domain below those. you can't simply register xyz and have it point directly at a server.
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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by Symbiote on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:25PM (#12118381)
Sure you can: http://ai./ (there are other CCTLDs doing this).

Only one new TLD does this, and the page is empty: http://мон./ or http://xn--l1acc./

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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by colejohnson66 on Monday July 18, 2016 @06:38PM (#12118429)
And now that Google owns the TLD `google' with their whole com.google thing a while back, what's to stop them from setting up https://google./? Is there any technical reason? Do you have to go through ICANN?
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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by djsumdog on Monday July 18, 2016 @09:51PM (#12119044)
I think you're mistaken. There isn't a TLD for google. Under some of the ICANN proposals, that would have been possible, but to date I don't think it's been done.
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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by colejohnson66 on Monday July 18, 2016 @10:45PM (#12119221)
No, there is. https://com.google./ redirects to https://google.com/

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11/26/google_turns_on_goog...

https://icannwiki.com/.google

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Re:The History of the URL: Path, Fragment, Query, and Auth by scrollaway on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @01:38AM (#12119960)
They officially host their domain registration website on domains.google, too:

https://domains.google/

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