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Re:A personal update from Susan by rkachowski on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:23PM (#34821819)
.youtube is a tld??
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Re:A personal update from Susan by millzlane on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:26PM (#34821878)
It's called a Brand TLD. https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD
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Re:A personal update from Susan by phneutral26 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:24PM (#34821837)
Right? Just shows you the powers of big monopolys.
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Re:A personal update from Susan by millzlane on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:25PM (#34821865)
They're called Brand TLD's https://icannwiki.org/Brand_TLD
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Re:A personal update from Susan by notatoad on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:38PM (#34822080)
brand TLDs only cost ~$200k. maybe doesn't make sense for the average person, but if you've got google money there's no reason no to pick it up.
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Re:A personal update from Susan by mtoner23 on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:26PM (#34821876)
lol, i guess youtube gets more clicks than most TLDs so makes sense.
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Re:A personal update from Susan by remram on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:38PM (#34822091)
YouTube is not under that TLD, though.
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Re:A personal update from Susan by Vikerchu on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:38PM (#34822096)
Whats a TLD?
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Re:A personal update from Susan by umeshunni on Thursday February 16, 2023 @12:57PM (#34822524)
Top Level Domain (like .com, .uk etc)
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Re:A personal update from Susan by trogdor on Friday February 17, 2023 @11:10AM (#34836394)
And .yt is a ccTLD :)
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