Nobody can make a website with the address grannysmith.apple — why? Because a company that makes computers says so. Simply absurd.

@rlamacraft The real reason is that "Brand TLDs" like .apple are a cynical moneygrab by ICANN.

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@Parienve How would you have done it differently?
Stick with .com,.net, and cctlds?
Make registration in the root namespace cheap like it is for .com? (who picks the rules then? With the gtlds you get to choose registries.)

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I'd probably have just stuck with the existing TLDs.

@swiley @Parienve why couldn’t they have been distributed just like the old ones? Apple could own iphone.apple and mac.apple, and WSU could own cosmiccrisp.apple. Since when does Apple have a trademark on the word “apple”?

@rlamacraft @Parienve Because Apple applied for it. They also applied for the gtld which is in a separate namespace from trademarks.
Why can't I have swiley.com? Because someone else already registered it.

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