[menus]

I don't understand how it's naive and unprofessional?

twitch.tv, goo.gl, youtu.be, etc. is the tip of the iceberg. Twitch and Google probably are unlikely to have bases in Tuvalu and Greenland respectively.

[CameronNemo]

Amazon and Google may not have bases in those countries, but they have a lot more weight than the typical company or individual.

Hitching your wagon to their success seems unwise. They won't make sure you make it to the end

Just buy a gTLD domain. You probably don't even need a separate domain for your link shortener...

[menus]

Forget gTLD, Google has their own TLD (1)

(1) https://blog.google/

[jrnichols]

I found out today that .apple exists too.

https://www.apple.com/legal/intellectual-property/tld/

[qingcharles]

Amazon and Google can probably buy off some of these Third World dictatorships to ensure ongoing use of the TLDs. (or pay for a coup)

[nolok]

While I would certainly love to see google try to buy off Belgium for the entertainement value of the following ECJ case, I think you're exaggerating a bit too much

[mminer237]

Amazon uses amzn.to when their revenue is roughly 1000x the GDP of Tonga.

[nolok]

My reply was mostly a tongue in cheek answer aimed at youtu.be being one of the given examples

[martin8412]

Google already lost the right to use goo.gl for their link shortening service. I'm not sure who would be a part of a potential coup, but it seems unlikely since Greenland has no military of their own, the military being provided by Denmark(a NATO member) who has already in the past allowed the US to station nuclear weapons on Greenland, despite being a party to the NPT.

[mod50ack]

They didn't lose the rights. They still own goo.gl; go to the address and you'll get Google. They just weren't interested in running a link shortener anymore.

[DropInIn]

Yea, they probably realized there was no analytics advantage when anyone who would use that shortener would also likely have google analytics on thier site...

[ehPReth]

did they lose the right or did they just not want to run it anymore?

[reaperducer]

Twitch and Google probably are unlikely to have bases in Tuvalu and Greenland respectively.

And bit.ly probably isn't working out of Lybia.

[N19PEDL2]

I've always been curious as to why .us isn't popular among the US tech companies. The only exception I know of is zoom.us.

[bravetraveler]

I'm so glad that as an individual I didn't use a number that was important when registering .us. To everyone else, take this as a warning!

Given that .us doesn't allow privacy, there's apparently a huge market for web designers and the like to watch registrations and use this as a 'lead generator'.

I have never received as much spam as I did after registering two .us domains. Thankfully, I used a number I can safely ignore

[DropInIn]

Makes me glad that the .ca tld allows keeping the registrants info private

[bravetraveler]

Consider me envious!

It truly should be enough that the registrar can get a hold of me

[Ekaros]

Still they could easily setup entities there and have some staff. It would not be that big of an investment for platforms of that size.

[tough]

twitch.com -> twitch.tv redirect

goo.gl is a link shortener like youtu.be aint it?

I dunno, It's just asking for trouble needlessly