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[–] tchotchony@mander.xyz 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

So say I want a ".travel", who actually makes and sells these? Is it a private company? A country? An independent entity who's sole purpose it is to keep domains and the interwebs alive?

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[–] MimicJar@sh.itjust.works 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

The last one, ICANN is the name of the organization. It's reasonable to argue they are actually the first one. Also they are based in the US, so technically the country answer also apply. HOWEVER they are suppose to be independent.

Also since you want ".travel" that's a common enough word that it is probably already owned by an entity, so you would probably have to buy it from them.

However let's say you wanted ".tchotchony" which I feel confident saying doesn't exist yet. As far as I know ICANN is not regularly taking applications for new TLDs, so you probably can't have it. Although realistically if you have enough money, you can.

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[–] grandkaiser@lemmy.world 2 points 3 years ago

Well, it's not just a money issue. There's also the "are you knowledgeable, responsible, and have DNS engineers on staff" problem. If you own your own TLD, it means you can talk directly to the root zone. You could theoretically DDOS the root zone servers and cause them to crash. They would, of course, just revoke your TLD permanently & it wouldn't really cause any noticeable disruption to the rest of the internet. You could also allow attack domains or shady websites. Maybe it could be used to pretend to be another site. Imagine owning ".conn" that would be a premium attack site TLD because it looks like "com". There's lots of other issues too.

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