List of April Fools' Day Announcements

Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements by josteink on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @07:13AM (#9302808)

Or .Sony, except there is no guarantee Sony corp actually registered that TLD.

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Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements by CydeWeys on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @03:23PM (#9306140)

Sony does own the .sony gTLD: https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/files/request-2014081-...

More generally, as part of ICANN's gTLD approval process, if the gTLD being applied for is a trademark, then it can't go to anyone else besides the trademark holder. So there's actually a lot more assurances that you are dealing with who you expect to be dealing with with gTLDs versus random domain names on .com.

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Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements by kedean on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @04:45PM (#9306733)

Honest question, trademarked according to who? The Internet is a global thing now, so who wins if there's two entities that happen to both have valid claims to a trademark?

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Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements by josteink on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @05:18PM (#9306981)

First one to pay icann money obviously.

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Re:List of April Fools' Day Announcements by amyjess on Wednesday April 01, 2015 @10:57AM (#9304110)

Hey, I remember the .sony floppy driver bug on '90s Macs!

Wow. Such nostalgia.

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