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		ChikkaChiChi on April 1, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: List of April Fools' Day Announcements Because ICANN set this up, and companies have to protect their trademarks. Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.

josteink on April 1, 2015 [–]

> Google isn't going to abandon their perfectly good domains.

Good thing icann just increased the available domain-space from "limited" to "unlimited" then. That sounds good for almost everyone, or at least icann.

sukilot on April 1, 2015 | [–]

Basically, "" is now a TLD, and ICANN is the registrar, so it can extract the rents.

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