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TLDs like .google and .microsoft really makes me think about how ridiculously gigantic those companies really are. They're so big they got their own freaking TLD.

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[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 3 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Can a moron get some context? I don't know much about internet or TLD... I'd ask AI but I want the right answer lol.

[–] NateNate60@lemmy.world 13 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

The last part of a Web address is a "TLD", or "top-level domain". There used to be relatively few of them, namely .com, .org, .edu, .net, .gov, and .mil. One of the functions of TLDs is to categorise websites so you know what sort of site you're visiting. The list of valid TLDs is a Web standard and creating a new TLD is not easy.

As time progressed, more and more TLDs were created. You have familiar ones like country-code TLDs which are for each individual country or region, such as .ca for Canada or .es for Spain.

In the past decade, several weirder and more arbitrary TLDs which are just random words with no categorisation purpose whatsoever have popped up, like .party, .xyz, or whatever.

The fact that Google, a private company, can have its own TLD (.google), is an indicator of how supremely influential the company is over the creation of Web standards. Not only does that TLD mean nothing and has no categorisation potential whatsoever (the company largely does not even use it), but based on the original model of only six TLDs, a private company wanting to have its own TLD would have then been considered the pinnacle of hubris.

[–] radiouser@crazypeople.online 4 points 6 hours ago

Thank-you so much, that was very informative and helpful!