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1355 points LorenDB | 3 comments | 17 Jun 25 15:02 UTC | HN request time: 0.602s | source
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kapildev ◴[17 Jun 25 21:04 UTC] No.44303937[source]▶
First time I saw a domain named `honda`. On further research [1], I see that many companies have Top Level Domains of their name. Why did IANA/ICANN allow TLDs of company's names?

[1]: https://data.iana.org/TLD/tlds-alpha-by-domain.txt

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1. fastball ◴[18 Jun 25 02:41 UTC] No.44306204[source]▶
Why not? It is useful for the company, ICANN gets a bunch of money, and it is not hurting anyone else (in fact it arguably benefits everyone else by causing big players to be more likely to stick things under their TLDs rather than monopolizing more .coms and other public TLDs).
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2. thfuran ◴[18 Jun 25 12:41 UTC] No.44309378[source]▶
If the big players decide to move their stuff to their own tld, they'll probably keep their old domains to redirect them.
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3. fastball ◴[18 Jun 25 13:55 UTC] No.44309919[source]▶
For sure, but (very) maybe they won't buy as many new ones, e.g. when they release new products.