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Discussion: Can a gTLD be a member of a FPS?

Open hpsin opened this issue 3 years ago • 3 comments

There's some interest in generic TLDs wholly-owned and managed by a corporation. (E.g. .google). If a gTLD was guaranteed (via governance and audit) to contain only sites owned and operated by a single entity, could it be added to a first party set?

This would allow companies with multiple "top level" products to retain eTLD+1 branding without bloating a first party set. So "corp" as a gTLD, so products could be hosted on "Product1.corp" and "Product2.Corp", as well as "login.corp".

hpsin avatar Mar 08 '21 18:03 hpsin

My organization has a registered gTLD, although it has no significant usage at present we would be interested in this possibility for future use.

chrisn avatar Mar 08 '21 19:03 chrisn

Is this a real concern? I thought as the gTLD provider, you can set the application rules for the entire subdomain chain as they want.

jeffreytgilbert avatar Apr 06 '21 21:04 jeffreytgilbert

@jeffreytgilbert - can you clarify what you mean by application rules? We can own the governance of ".office" but we can't reach into the browsers (eg via FPS) to indicate how the subdomain should be treated. It'd be nice to say that Word and PowerPoint are generically allowed to talk to one another and that it's not invasive tracking of the user to do so. Showing a prompt every time we add a new sub component to our app would kill the basic composition model of the web, which is largely what we are hoping to retain via FPS.

hpsin avatar Apr 06 '21 21:04 hpsin