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A comment on ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has about 134 entries. Parent comment

Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by toast0 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:08PM (#40900094)
Sure, but did they need a tld? What are they going to use it for that travelers.com isn't a better choice?

How much money did they light on fire to have a tld and what utility does it provide?

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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by AnthonyMouse on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:59PM (#40900405)
Not only that, .insurance is a TLD, so why didn't they just get travelers.insurance?
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by lmz on Sunday July 07, 2024 @07:28PM (#40901340)
More control?
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by johannes1234321 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @10:55PM (#40902236)
They don't need it. But they don't want anybody else to have it either. With such a generic and descriptive name trade mark protection isn't easy.
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by bombcar on Monday July 08, 2024 @09:22AM (#40905188)
And if GTLDs had become the AOL keyword of the 2010s they would have really been pissed if they missed out.

I could see a world where GTLDs were given extreme preference by search engines and browsers, but that world isn't ours.

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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by johannes1234321 on Monday July 08, 2024 @07:19PM (#40910837)
Well, ICANN explicitly forbid using just the TLD, so https://google/ was forbidden and you need at least https://blog.google/
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