Re:Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South Amer...
by sirn on Sunday June 23, 2019 @06:21AM
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IDN ccTLD (country code) is not the same as new gTLD, although new gTLD may also be IDN. IDN ccTLD are usually granted to the existing operator of the ccTLD and is a completely different process than sponsored TLD (usually involving government to support the delegation). ccTLD operator may choose to make it available for public use or not once it's granted e.g. Japan's JPRS has both .jp and .日本 (but .日本 is not available to public)
Some of the new TLDs created are actually useful, Russia got a TLD for the IDN value that native Russians would recognise more easily than .ru -- .рф and it's been pretty successful for locals.
Some of them were land grab attempts, people see .com makes a lot of money and imagine that some of that could be theirs, but alas mostly they're wrong. .horse, .aero, .london and so on. Their only value to the wider community is that they allow jokes like http://my.lovely.horse/ or http://ibless.therains.downin.africa/
A few of them are straight up vanity, but whereas your vanity domain might be costing you $25 pa from an expensive vendor with a crappy web site thrown in, operators of TLDs are spending many orders of magnitude more to obey rules
.kerrylogistics .kerryproperties and .kerryhotels all exist for example, and obviously those are completely useless, anybody looking for those outfits will either Google or knows their much shorter "real" domain name - but I guess probably they get a bulk deal on some of the technology needed, maybe the whole lot costs them only $2M per year to maintain.