Google owns TLDs: .web .meme and .lol

Google does not own .web. They were in the running to acquire it but it will ultimately go to Verisign (who runs .com) after a ~5 year legal dispute.

If ICANN wasn&#x27;t just a giant extortion racket they would have yanked this from Google squatting on it years ago - clearly they haven&#x27;t actually met any of the listed goals considering they have never used the TLD (or opened them for general availability like their original application implies).<p>In reality all ICANN cares about is $$$

The list of all their owned TLDs are at [0]. There is an icannwiki page with all the ones they’ve applied for, but not just the ones they currently own.<p>0: <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntldstats.com&#x2F;registry&#x2F;Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;ntldstats.com&#x2F;registry&#x2F;Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc</a>

They also have .new, enabling links like <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sheets.new" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;sheets.new</a>.

And .dev, which IIRC they were not going to make public but then did. And requires SSL

ICANN is a fat American corporate body.<p>At some point ISLANNDs (Internet Small Local Authority for Name and Number Designations) could override it. That way, you could link to <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.lol&#x2F;posts&#x2F;39-put-google-in-the-can" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;google.lol&#x2F;posts&#x2F;39-put-google-in-the-can</a> and your cohort will enjoy this and the rest of those posts making fun of google, while the rest of the world is disappointed over dead links.

Is &quot;TLD hogging&quot; going to be the new &quot;domain hogging&quot;?

Could someone write a browser extension to override DNS?<p>And basically create a new domain system for people with that extension installed?

Fix the title OP to just Google owns .meme or something since the rest is incorrect.

You can have a cool TLD too. You just have to bribe ICANN.

What does it take to register a new TLD?

Ah, every time I read about vanity TLDs (are they called that? Can I call them that?) I sigh at the brokenness of attaching structure&#x2F;constraints to domains and TLDs...<p>At least the country TLDs made sense, plus things like .org for non-profits and .gov for US governments. And then things like bit.ly, look.at, blah.io overrode all of that. I wonder what &quot;.lol&quot; should be for, parody sites? Like whitehouse.lol, google.lol? ycombinator.lol? The first 2 probably can&#x27;t exist because hey, this is an oligocracy.<p>Congrats to AOL, I guess, their idea with AOL keywords was actually superior, and we&#x27;re returning to that. Already on TV ads that I see, they just say &quot;Search for $BRAND&#x2F;$PRODUCT to find out more&quot;.

In a sense, dangerous. Google has a history of (and currently practices) censoring viewpoints it disagrees with. Will its censorship reach extend from omitting &#x2F; deprioritizing search results to entirely canceling those using its TLDs that it deems undesirable?