Or alternatively "the web is hard if you sacrifice any kind of structure to make a quick buck".
On the risk of sounding get-off-my-lawn-ish, but TLDs used to be assigned using some relatively simple, service-agnostic rules: A hierarchical system for ccTLDs, plus a small set of universal gTLDs plus some historic quirks. Nowadays assignment seems to be solely by who pays most.
I'm sure brands and attorneys love it. Now they have to defend Coke and Disney and their hundreds of associated domains across hundreds of TLDs. Think of the permutations.
Twenty years ago it was utterly unthinkable that anyone would get a corporate TLD. Today it's like "Why doesn't Coke have one?"
The ICANN has really gone into dark territory with this decision to open things up. It's fitting that their wiki logo is some unruly weed taking over the world: https://icannwiki.org
Or alternatively "the web is hard if you sacrifice any kind of structure to make a quick buck".
On the risk of sounding get-off-my-lawn-ish, but TLDs used to be assigned using some relatively simple, service-agnostic rules: A hierarchical system for ccTLDs, plus a small set of universal gTLDs plus some historic quirks. Nowadays assignment seems to be solely by who pays most.