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by xelipe 5113 days ago
I found that one individual had applied for 300 gTLDs, Google for 98 including for .lol and .foo. In reality, each company could have used just one gTLD such as .google and could have extended it having app.google domains. To Dave's point, these domains are not necessary open for the public. If google wins, .dad, they don't have to give you a domain in that gTLD.
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jleader 5113 days ago
Many TLDs already have restrictions, and are not 100% "open for the public". There's been controversy about whether .job is enforcing its restrictions correctly; .edu is strictly limited to US accredited 4-year secondary educational institutions; .gov and .mil are "owned" by the US government; many ccTLDs have restrictions, for example .cn at times has required registrants to have a business license in China, etc.
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keithpeter 5112 days ago
In the UK, .ac.uk is reserved to colleges and universities, .gov.uk to local and national government &c.

What happens about .books.uk &c? Should be fun.

http://icannwiki.com/index.php/Kieren_McCarthy

McCarthy worked for ICANN for a bit, and now he appears to be running some conferences and a web site

http://news.dot-nxt.com/author/Kieren%20McCarthy

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Navarr 5112 days ago
This is a bad example only because .ac.uk is technically a second-level domain, and anything under it would be a third-level subdomain of .ac.uk

Technically speaking, of course.

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keithpeter 5112 days ago
I take your point fully. Just musing on the country codes being appended to the same words as the new top level domains, just to create more confusion.

In the UK some smaller private colleges that are not eligible for .ac.uk register web sites with the .ac country code.

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Navarr 5112 days ago
I understand, but I believe as others have pointed out that ICANN would deny said applications.

And if the spammers/scammers have enough money to afford the infrastructure necessary for a TLD, I think we may have a bigger problem.

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keithpeter 5111 days ago
My understanding is that books.uk is just a second level domain. It would have to be Nominet who questioned the application, and there are countries that appear to take a liberal view of the use of their country code. Have I misunderstood?
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regularfry 5113 days ago
The guy who applied for 300 is a domainer. He's going for them specifically to mark them up and sell them on, he doesn't want to hold them.

At least, that's my assumption. He might want to run ".domains".

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