I can’t think of any prominent ones outside of country code domains.

strenholme 17 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I remember I had beach.santa-cruz.ca.us at one point registered to me. I owned beach.santa-cruz.ca.us, someone else owned santa-cruz.ca.us, yet someone else owned ca.us, and I believe Network Solutions took care of .us at the time.

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bombcar an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

You can almost guess someone's age from that alone - they're more rare, but long domain names still appear that encode a city and a state, and you could just "grab" the first part when signing up.

	▲	davkan 27 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Outside of the context of ccTLDs and city.state.gov etc, I struggle to think of examples 3LD+ domains where they are owned and operated by completely different concerns than the parent. If at some point you could just register your own mysite.state.gov domains willy nilly that's probably before my initial time online around 2000. Another poster raised the point of hosting services which is valid. But at present outside of that example and the above I really can't think of an example where you have a link to entity.com and you have any significant cause to verify the identity beyond the 2LD.

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ketzu an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Github Pages is probably the most well known one (on here).

I think geocities had this as well?

A lot of hosting services offer this in general. (eg render)

Tumblr? (Might not count as the control over the page is more limited. The subdomains "are" still tumblr.)

For reddits subdomains are redirects to subreddits of the same name, so I guess that doesn't count.

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davkan 42 minutes ago | parent [-]

None of these examples are of actual separate registration/ownership of a 3LD from the parent 2LD. Cloudflare owns the domain for myproject.pages.dev and hosts all the relevant infra. Not to say that there isn't a different entity represented by the 3LD than the 2LD but it's not exactly the same.

Also I would not consider the examples of tumblr and reddit to be relevant. A person's blog on myprofile.tumblr.org is still the tumblr organization. This would be true for reddit even if they didn't redirect. Reddit admins moderate content on all subreddits.

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ketzu 28 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

I see, that's a valid way to think of domain ownership.

When I read > I have been taught and tell my users to check the domain to verify a website is real.

I was thinking more of control of the content as "ownership" of the domain.

	▲	davkan 21 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		The point on hosting providers is well taken. You do have to consider x.pages.dev as the wild west not cloudflare of course. One difference though is you will never receive an email from x.pages.dev asking you to do something. The domain ownership still does play a part.

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megagpt1 31 minutes ago | parent | prev [-]

You can buy example.it.com on many registrars. Someone bought it.com and operates it like a TLD.

	▲	davkan 19 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Interesting. I do wonder how many people outside scammers and squatters buy them. I'd rather have an .xyz or .biz address personally.