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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 jimbobthrowawy on Sunday July 07, 2024 @04:34PM (#40900264)
ICANN expressly forbid google, and other companies from operating these gTLDs as "dotless" domains back when they approved them. Annoyingly, URLs like "maps.google" aren't set up to go where you'd expect.
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by KMnO4 on Sunday July 07, 2024 @08:06PM (#40901538)
It’s crazy that maps.google doesn’t exist, but sheets.new and docs.new both work.
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by pests on Sunday July 07, 2024 @11:43PM (#40902443)
Those .new TLDs have specific requirements as in you are required to use it for creating a new "YOUR_DOMAIN" resource.

Maps is a little weird because while originally they were bundling maps and search and a bunch of products together they have had to back off on that strategy due to the recent antitrust concerns and bundling so now they are purposefully separating the products and the domains further.

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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by prettymuchnoone on Sunday July 07, 2024 @09:12PM (#40901836)
I think they've been (slowly) migrating things over--passwords.google and blog.google and a few others exist nowadays
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by 1oooqooq on Sunday July 07, 2024 @11:35PM (#40902402)
it's very by design on that example. maps.google.com also stopped working a long time ago.
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by tasuki on Monday July 08, 2024 @01:48AM (#40902896)
No?

    $ curl -v maps.google.com
    [...]
    < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
    < Location: http://maps.google.com/maps
    [...]
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by 1oooqooq on Monday July 08, 2024 @11:16AM (#40906173)
keep going...
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Re:ICANN's list of abandoned vanity TLDs, which now has abou... by PawgerZ on Monday July 08, 2024 @09:49AM (#40905426)
It still works, but it redirects to google.com/maps
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