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There is no way you'd get a "google" domain under any extension but even if you register a domain with "google" + something else you're going to lose it in a UDRP anyway.

It's possible that google and other major brand names don't have to register every extension, the names are just reserved for them alone, should they want them.

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There was a dude a while back who registered google.com and gave it back when asked. I figured I might be able to do that and get a cool story to tell out of it.

He never registered google.com. google.com is hard-locked at the registry level by Verisign and has very high security manual safeguards around any changes that are made to it.

There was a temporary bug in Google Domains that made it appear as if he had bought google.com, but he had not.

Are there other domains hard-locked at the registry level? I haven't heard of this behavior before.

Yes, there are many such registry-locked domains. Verisign and most other TLD operators sell it as a service. More info:

https://www.verisign.com/en_US/channel-resources/domain-regi... https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/01/does-your-domain-have-a-...

It's a recommended best-practice for high-value sites, which the main website of any Fortune 500 company certainly falls under.

Oh, this is available to anyone with a .com using a major registrar. I had misunderstood this to be some special feature only available to the domains that make up massive amounts of internet traffic like google.com.

There is likely to be even more scrutiny placed on any changes to domain names that employees of Verisign immediately recognize, such as "google.com". I imagine that would have to go through a very high level person at Verisign. It's in everyone's vested best interests here to not screw up something so visible as that.

I think it was GoDaddy not Google Domains.

It was Google Domains.

Huh?

The guy in the article did in fact buy a google.tld - https://google.xn--9dbq2a/

I wasn't talking to the guy in the article, was I?

The guy in the article was able to do it recently. Why not the person you were replying to? (Besides the fact that now the guy in the article has done them all)

Lots of people hand registered 3 and 4 letter .coms in the past.

So because they could do it, anyone who points out it's not possible now should be downvoted and asked to explain themselves with:

Why is it not possible, beside the fact that it's not possible?

[Edited to remove excess frustration/annoyance/snark at people quibbling so much about a totally inconsequential and factual remark.]

It is unlikely that google owns trademarks in all countries for all trademark types.

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