I just remembered that I uncovered a conspiracy years ago and forgot to tell anyone beyond one news outlet that ghosted me.
Replying to @ErikUden@mastodon.de
The current CEO of Identity Digital (formerly Donuts Inc) named Akram Atallah, used to be the president of ICANN's global domain division, the folx that “own” and “run” the internet.
Under his leadership, ICANN introduced the new generic Top Level Domain program, or new gTLD, giving the creation of a new domain ending (.shop, .brand, .gmbh) a price tag of 200k USD.
Interestingly enough, the one business that jumped on this newly and artificially created market of top level domains, was Donuts Inc., whom Akram Atallah then became CEO of. Today, they control ~37.1% of all new top level domains, as they created hundreds of shell companies to bypass limitations.
I have a list of all shell companies, public records proving they all tie back to him and Donuts Inc., and he's proudly bragging about having done this on LinkedIn so it's not really a conspiracy but known corruption.
Replying to @ErikUden@mastodon.de
@ErikUden Also they probably courted many companies to make them get their own TLD, which is just useless. If you go to https://ntldstats.com/backend/Identity-Digital-Inc you see that they are the technical registry for 170 brand domains.
Replying to @Exagone313@share.elouworld.org
Walmart owns the .george tld and as far as I can tell they have done absolutely nothing with it even though it would be a really nice told for a certain subset of the population to get domains on
Replying to @gbargoud@masto.nyc
Looks like that one's not identity digital but I still want lastname.firstname as a personal website goddamnit