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Hope they secure '.app'.
Huge potential for developers especially with .app.

Imagine something like airbnb.app or instagram.app as a domain to directly find these app pages/downloads etc.

App is the most wanted one with 13 applicants. Apple is not one of them.
 
I am kind of curious to see how many applied to the .porn domain.

I don't think alot of the companies that make porn are really happy with this operation (along with the .xxx domain) since they often times have multiple domains already that they actively use in their branding - doing this means additional expenses in buying more domain extensions to protect their names from people who would abuse their legal rights or try to censor them or whatnot.

Imagine a .com adult company with 10 or so other existing .com sites that they operate. Right now they already have to obtain lots of alternates extensions (like .net) for each of their sites, lest somebody else buy them and try to hold it hostage. Buying an entire domain isn't cheap either. Apple can easily afford the 100+ grand, but they are just one company, an adult company may have several companies with completely separate branding and identities separate from each other.
 
I really can't understand why Apple didn't apply for .app!

That is most likely the one who is most worth and would be most useful for apple.

instagram.app, twitter.app, facebook.app, iphoto.app, pages.app…

It's so useful!
 
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polka.apple
 
ICANN is nuts to be offering this. Comon words as TLDs just reverts the Internet to some kind of AOL like keyword system. Proper DNS hierarchy wasn't broken, this breaks it if anything. The root-servers are going to get hit hard when TLDs multiply.

Way to destroy a good system in the name of profit.

Good point. I was wondering about that as well. It definitely does seem as though it will have the side effect of creating a lot more overhead than exists today.

Also, If they are allowing an arbitrary number of root names now, then they might as well allow single-level names to resolve to a host, such as just "http://apple".
 
Money grab by ICANN

Nothing more than a money grab by ICANN preying off of corporations buying for defensive purposes. Despicable.
 
Apple.com could be changed to home.apple, and so
ipod.apple
iphone.apple
imac.apple
ipad.apple
appstore.apple
store.apple
macbook.apple
iforgot.apple
findmy.apple
icloud.apple
me.apple

and it would be totally awesome to have iCloud mails like
myname@me.apple
or
myname@mail.apple
or something like that
 
To be clear, that would technically be: http://www.iphone.apple The "www" part would remain as it would be part of the world wide web and not another part of the internet.



No. Think about it...is there a site that is just "www.com (http://www.com)?" It would still need to be "www.something.apple"

http://www.com is a website, yes. And of course Apple can have http://www.apple if they win the .apple TLD.
 
Surely that would be apple/ipad and apple/iphone ? Why a subdomain?

Also, this ties in nicely with the next version of Safari getting a unified search/url bar (ie. one box instead of 2 separate ones). If you were to type in 'apple' you'd go straight to their site, instead of over to google with the results of a search for the word "apple".

That's not how domains work. You need SOMETHING.TOPLEVELDOMAIN
 
I don't get those new domains suffixes. Why not just type "iphone.com" and "ipad.com" instead of "iphone.apple" and "ipad.apple". It redirects you to the right page anyway.

Seems confusing for nothing and I hope Apple doesn't use this unless they have some clever use I haven't thought of.
 
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