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I think it's more that they felt obligated to register it to protect their trademark than them actually wanting to use it.

Which sorta implies that ICANN is basically just conducting a trademark extortion racket.

That seems pretty paranoid when you could just file an objection instead.

They could just use `http://blockbuster/`.

I don't mean to endorse GTLDs, of course; it's apparent that they're solely a caustic money-making scheme and have no fathomable benefits.

It's not working for me right now, but there were a couple of ccTLDs that has WWW services running on the IP addresses assigned to the FQDN for their ccTLD. I seem to remember it was http://uz. and a couple of others... maybe http://io. ?

For a brief period of time, http://to./ was the world's shortest URL shortener.

minecraft.blockbuster