Like: server.nyc.company
Maybe they want to make sure the domain is under their control, and it may be cheaper just to buy the entire gtld than to change every internal domain name.
With so many laptops and byod, I've seen some issues happen when the external and internal domain names resolve differently.
Like when the internal domain.corp overlaps with the public domain.corp owned by somebody else.
What's even more perplexing is that they own bestbuy.com - which is IMO more desirable than any dot-bestbuy domain for public-facing stuff.
Does Best Buy’s trademark for retail extend to all categories? Maybe? But consider that booking.com spent millions and took years to get the Supreme Court to decide that “booking.com” is trademarkable, where “booking” is not.
The more I think about that the more I think I’d make the same decision.
List of TLDs: https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc
*.goog certificates (a bunch of [x].cloud.goog stuff ) https://crt.sh/?CN=%25.goog&exclude=expired&match=LIKE (page wil take a long time to load)
Just set up a zone in your local DNS and you’re done.
In fact I could even use .bestbuy as a TLD on my own network. The fact that they registered it publicly doesn’t stop anyone from doing this.
I ran into a situation where, even on VPN, going to https://<company>vacation/ on my home network would take me to https://<company>vacation.net (a valid domain). It would have been trivial for the owner of that domain to phish for credentials.
Unfortunately the AP manufacturer didn’t renew the domain and it was squatted by an ad serving website.
Every hare domain became subdomain.accesspointbrand.com
So now and then I would get those ads when using wifi. I ended up changing the Access point.
https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=corporati...
https://tmsearch.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=toc&state=4804%3A...
I happened to work for a registry at the time, and remember getting bizarre calls from places like doctor's offices and such inquiring about some email/flyer/call they got. I was honest with them, at least.