• iso@lemy.lolEnglish
      8·
      7 months ago

      Yeah that’s true. We just need to research who owns the TLD before long-term site and everything is ok.

        • 4z01235@lemmy.worldEnglish
          31·
          7 months ago

          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.

            • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
              3·
              7 months ago

              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.

            • 4z01235@lemmy.worldEnglish
              11·
              7 months ago

              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 .google TLD. The registration fee is chump change for Google/Alphabet to make sure this can’t happen.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.ukEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      .io is the British Indian ocean’s territory, probably not really a risk i doubt anything’s going to happen there.

      • Skull giver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nlEnglish
        4·
        7 months ago

        Many people don’t know it’s not a generic TLD.

        There was some drama about the TLD a while back by people who disagree with the British occupation of the territories, and with the state of the world right now, I don’t think it’s entirely unimaginable that the TLD will be redelegated. We’ve seen the death and redelegation of .tk and other Freenom domains already, which was partially because of a lawsuit, but also because the locals wanted control of their TLD back (because none of the TLD money was flowing into the local economy).

        I think the TLD isn’t at great risk at the moment, but if you’re going to build your business, you may want to pick a generic TLD just in case.