Erik Uden 🚩@ErikUden@mastodon.de

@carstenfranke @ploum exactly. There's no need for a “.google” or ".amazon” TLD beyond these corporations needing to buy them in order to prevent someone else from doing so. 200k for a business like Amazon is nothing.

Being able to have “.scot” or “.cat” (Scotland and Catalonia) which are obvious regions but wouldn't get their own TLD as they aren't listed as a country by the ISO standard, is good, but there should've been a better way.

The domain ending “.exposed” is another crime like this. It's astronomically expensive to register a .exposed domain and all big businesses do so in order to not have a site meant for exposing them.

The fact that ".zip” or “.mov” was allowed as a gTLD is the newest of this scharade.

Suzanne Aldrich (she/her)@suzannealdrich@hachyderm.io

Replying to @⁨ErikUden@mastodon.de⁩

@ErikUden @carstenfranke @ploum I talk to companies almost every month about protecting the hundreds of domains they’ve got registered to avoid phishing and fraud. This need is brought on by the very existence of these worthless gTLDs. It is entirely there to profit off people who must protect themselves from the resultant threat. Just like protection money paid to gangsters!

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