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Comment by JadoJodo | Hacker News Reader

Obviously, they're Google, but does it strike anyone else as odd that the `.google` tld exists? Why not `.amazon`, `.toyota`, etc

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https://icannwiki.org/.amazon https://icannwiki.org/.toyota

They both exist.

But as far as I'm aware they don't use it because (my guess) they're rightfully scared of it looking incredibly silly.

https://newgtlds.icann.org/en/program-status/delegated-strin...

There are many corporate TLDs, including Amazon (took a while to be approved due to protest from the Amazon region of the world). They also have many sites on the .aws TLD.

https://global.toyota/ is a real site.

Tip: You can search the term `site:ext` on DuckDuckGo to see sites using that domain extension (TLD). It's not very helpful for .com for example, but it's useful for queries like `site:aws` to see what sites are using the .aws TLD.

There are many brand tlds. Many large companies have them, even if their main site is not on it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Internet_top-level_dom...

https://icannwiki.org/.toyota

They do exist![0][1]

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.amazon

[1]: https://icannwiki.org/.toyota

Today I learned... Crazy! Thanks for your reply :)

Both `.amazon` and `.toyota` both exist and are owned by the respective companies.

Both exist.

Owning your own TLD is pretty cost prohibitive. I take it that many companies simply don't have the technical skillset and have determined it isn't worth the costs.

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