The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
The admin stated they won’t be renewing the domain because .af is now controlled by the Taliban.
Link to post: https://queer.af/@postmaster/111733741786950083
You can just buy a brand TLD for 100k, like Google did with .google and .youtube. Of course, even Google only seems to use blog.google (and I don’t think they even use .youtube) but they could!
They even use youtu.be as their URL shortener
I’m sure Google didn’t buy those for the purpose of actually using them, but rather to prevent someone else from registering and using them.
I don’t think so, you can’t just claim a brand name of your own. You have to own a trademark on the name.
It’s Google, probably just bought them on the off chance that they would ever do anything with them.
They are a company where the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand very often anyway.
Two businesses can trademark the same name if they are operating in different industries. Or, the name could have spaces or punctuation that renders the same as a TLD.
Go Ogle Photographic & Paparazzi Inc. could have a reasonable claim to the same
.googleTLD. The registration fee is chump change for Google/Alphabet to make sure this can’t happen.deleted by creator