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Almost every large company applied for gTLDs for their trademarks.

There's some surprises:

* .nike * .staples * .marshalls * .pamperedchef * .tiffany * .firestone

Though I have a feeling many of these are only going to be used for internal networks.



> Though I have a feeling many of these are only going to be used for internal networks.

Why would an internal network need a publicly resolvable domain?


Its good practice to own the domain you use internally so that someone else cant register it, then proceed to do evil.


My favorite from the first round of expansion is https://icannwiki.org/.afamilycompany


Starting cost is close to $200,000.

Seems like ICANN gets a lot of money these days...




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