[jimbobthrowawy]

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.

[KMnO4]

It’s crazy that maps.google doesn’t exist, but sheets.new and docs.new both work.

[pests]

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.

[prettymuchnoone]

I think they've been (slowly) migrating things over--passwords.google and blog.google and a few others exist nowadays

[1oooqooq]

it's very by design on that example. maps.google.com also stopped working a long time ago.

[tasuki]

No?

    $ curl -v maps.google.com
    [...]
    < HTTP/1.1 302 Found
    < Location: http://maps.google.com/maps
    [...]

[1oooqooq]

keep going...

[PawgerZ]

It still works, but it redirects to google.com/maps