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warbler73 | 3 years ago

> domain extensions like .dev and .app are owned by Google

Why are domain extensions like .dev and .app owned by Google?

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yencabulator|3 years ago

Because ICANN will give a gTLD to anyone who pays them enough.

warbler73|3 years ago

Any gTLD whatsoever owned by some for profit corporation is not acceptable.

blululu|3 years ago

ICANN allows anyone to create a domain. You need to pay a bunch of fees to register it and service it but it is not that much. In this case I believe Google created these domains for internal tools and they have owned them ever since.

toast0|3 years ago

You also need a time machine as they're not currently accepting applications.