Dotless Domain Names Prohibited, ICANN Tells Google 132
New submitter gwstuff writes "Last year, Google filed applications for about 100 top level domains. These included .app, .cloud and .lol, but perhaps most prominently .search, which they had requested to operate as a 'dotless' domain. [Friday], ICANN gave their verdict on the idea that would make this URL valid : NO. Here is the formal announcement, and a related Slashdot story from last year. So that's that. But it may still be granted the rights for the remaining 100. Is prime dot-com real estate going to become a thing of the past?"
Re:.com is still king (Score:5, Informative)
For example, how many American companies apply for .us domain? The other side of the coin is that you are only talking about the English speaking world.
Heck he is probablly only talking about the USA
Over here in the uk .co.uk is pretty commonly used. Sometimes .com will take you to the right place too but other tines it will take you to a foreign company of the same name or for multinational companies to the american website of the company in question.
Re:What about the existing dotless sites? (Score:3, Informative)