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Non-tech companies are getting sucked in, too - see, for example, the applications for .airliquide, .capitalgroup, .dinebrands, .massimodutti, .newbalance, .stubhub, .warhammer, .zarahome, and so on.

From what I've seen thus far, most brand TLDs never get used. (The only significant exception that comes to mind is .google, and even they never really committed to using it.) Who's been going around convincing these companies to apply for this round?

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.zarahome is just crazy.

They registered .zara 10 years ago [0], but they don't use https://home.zara for some reason.

[0] https://www.iana.org/domains/root/db/zara.html


Google mainly uses .goog for infrastructure (from cloud, gclb, gke, pki, to printer.in) while .google is more of the about page of services.

The pharmaceutical company Hisamitsu uses its TLD:

https://us.hisamitsu




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