This really makes me wonder about the value of TLDs in general. Let’s say that “gmail” is a well known enough name that “gmail.com”, “gmail.org”, …, “gmail.top” should be reserved by default. If that’s the case, then the value of separate TLDs becomes interesting because two companies “abc.com” and “abc.top” would now have competing concerns. It seems like only small companies would then be open to phishing, and large ones would possibly be able to use trademark law across all TLDs. In fact large companies tend to try and reserve their name in all major TLDs.
I’m not really arguing for or against greater or fewer TLDs, but it does seem like an awkward situation.
I’m not really arguing for or against greater or fewer TLDs, but it does seem like an awkward situation.