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by warbler73 1282 days ago
> domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google

Why are domain extensions like .dev and .app owned by Google?
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yencabulator 1282 days ago
Because ICANN will give a gTLD to anyone who pays them enough.
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warbler73 1282 days ago
Any gTLD whatsoever owned by some for profit corporation is not acceptable.
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yencabulator 1282 days ago
You're about a decade late. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#New_t...
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warbler73 1282 days ago
That is not acceptable.
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colejohnson66 1282 days ago
.com has been run by Verisign since before the gTLD nonsense
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account42 1279 days ago
.com is however not owned by Verisign. They can't just set arbitrary prices without ICANN approval.
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blululu 1281 days ago
ICANN allows anyone to create a domain. You need to pay a bunch of fees to register it and service it but it is not that much. In this case I believe Google created these domains for internal tools and they have owned them ever since.
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toast0 1281 days ago
You also need a time machine as they're not currently accepting applications.
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