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kapildev ◴[] 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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gertrunde ◴[] No.44304215[source]
Money mostly.

$185,000 application fee to apply for a new gTLD, plus maybe some auctions for gTLDs that multiple entities wanted, resulted in just under $60 million for ICANN.[2]

Apparently Google and Amazon were the most prolific appliers, with 101 and 76 applications respectively.[3]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICANN#TLD_expansion_and_concer...

[2] https://www.theregister.com/2015/04/17/icann_gltd_auction_mo...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generic_top-level_domain#Expan...

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