• 4z01235@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      5 months 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.

        • Echo DotEnglish
          3·
          5 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.

        • 4z01235@lemmy.worldEnglish
          11·
          5 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.