• @4z01235@lemmy.world
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      21 year ago

      I’m sure Google didn’t buy those for the purpose of actually using them, but rather to prevent someone else from registering and using them.

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        1 year ago

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          It’s Google, probably just bought them on the off chance that they would ever do anything with them.

          They are a company where the left hand doesn’t talk to the right hand very often anyway.

        • @4z01235@lemmy.world
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          01 year ago

          Two businesses can trademark the same name if they are operating in different industries. Or, the name could have spaces or punctuation that renders the same as a TLD.

          Go Ogle Photographic & Paparazzi Inc. could have a reasonable claim to the same .google TLD. The registration fee is chump change for Google/Alphabet to make sure this can’t happen.