Microsoft, Nokia and Oracle complained to Google - they want too many top-level domains
The registration of common top-level domains (generic Top-Level Domain, gTLD), which began last summer, has caused a number of large companies to become so active that some of them want to provoke protests and complaints from other market players.
So about a week ago a number of publishing organizations were outraged by the fact that Amazon, the manufacturer of the most popular readers, intended to get such top-level domains as .book and .read . As a result, ICANN received a letter from the US Publishers Association, which stated that the transfer of such domains to the management of a private company would adversely affect the competition and therefore unacceptable.
Now, Google, which has applied for registration of a number of such domains as .search , .app , .earth , .car , .fly , .map , .cloud , has got into a similar story, only with much more serious participants. As a result, the number of all desired domain names by the search giant exceeded one hundred.
The FireSearch organization, which includes companies such as Microsoft, Orale, Nokia, Expedia, and several others, published a letter to ICANN today, from which it follows that Google’s activity in the fight for such a large number of domain names, many of which denote very general concepts and little correlated with the company profile, is simply unacceptable, because again it will lead to a monopoly of one company in many areas, which, in turn, will lead to a weakening of competition in the market.
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As a result, ICANN is urged to deny Google to obtain a number of the domains listed above, even regardless of whether the search giant plans to use them in principle or not.
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So about a week ago a number of publishing organizations were outraged by the fact that Amazon, the manufacturer of the most popular readers, intended to get such top-level domains as .book and .read . As a result, ICANN received a letter from the US Publishers Association, which stated that the transfer of such domains to the management of a private company would adversely affect the competition and therefore unacceptable.
Now, Google, which has applied for registration of a number of such domains as .search , .app , .earth , .car , .fly , .map , .cloud , has got into a similar story, only with much more serious participants. As a result, the number of all desired domain names by the search giant exceeded one hundred.
The FireSearch organization, which includes companies such as Microsoft, Orale, Nokia, Expedia, and several others, published a letter to ICANN today, from which it follows that Google’s activity in the fight for such a large number of domain names, many of which denote very general concepts and little correlated with the company profile, is simply unacceptable, because again it will lead to a monopoly of one company in many areas, which, in turn, will lead to a weakening of competition in the market.
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As a result, ICANN is urged to deny Google to obtain a number of the domains listed above, even regardless of whether the search giant plans to use them in principle or not.
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Source: https://habr.com/ru/post/173485/
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