alt Hacker NewsFor businesses, it's not a valid reason to not block .garden simply because a gardening site exists. If a site is important enough, exceptions to the blanket rule can be applied.
In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD.
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Would you consider .aero, .cat, .asia, .info novelties? They have been around for 20+ years. Sure, there are over 1500 gTLDs now, but when does something stop becoming a novelty? .ai a ccTLD, that Google recognizes as a gTLD, is that a novelty? These are a bit rhetorical.
> In general though, if you want Fortune 500s to utilize your service/company, don't utilize a novelty TLD.
New potential technique to not have your open source project yoinked/resold by cloud providers? :)
Blanket ban rules are extremely lazy and unacceptable in 2026, especially for Fortune 500s. It’s extremely cheap to use a scoring system instead.