• Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      11 months ago

      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.

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      11 months 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.