news Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname battle for shared control of Amazon.com

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Amazon.com Inc has been seeking rights to the domain name since 2012. But Amazon basin countries Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname have argued that it refers to their geographic region and thus belongs to them and should not be "the monopoly of one company."

The global Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), which oversees internet addresses, has extended until this month a deadline for the parties to reach a deal...

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[Future Sensors]

Now that's a confusing article: "battle that has quietly raged over the Amazon.com internet domain".

The article mentions 'Amazon.com' a lot, but it also mentions 'dot amazon' (the .amazon TLD).

Here's a related article from 2019, about the .amazon TLD:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47794353

 

[Eric Lyon]

Now that's a confusing article: "battle that has quietly raged over the Amazon.com internet domain".

The article mentions 'Amazon.com' a lot, but it also mentions 'dot amazon' (the .amazon TLD).

Here's a related article from 2019, about the .amazon TLD:

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-47794353

It was an interesting read of both articles. I agree, a little confusing.

In either case (Amazon.com or .Amazon), if the complainants win joint rights to either, it opens the door wider to potential legal issues surrounding the hundreds of thousands of other GEO related domain names in the possession of start-ups, existing businesses, and resellers that could potentially fall pray to governing bodies, states, cities, countries, and other municipalities with GEO claims to the names.

This 2018 "Territorialization of the internet domain name system" documentation by the UNLV School of Law was a good read to put a few things into perspective regarding GEO related domain names: https://scholars.law.unlv.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=2044&context=facpub

Things that make you go hmmmmm....

 

[The Durfer]

not one of those definitions mentions the amazon river basin. ty.

 

[jberryhill]

Why was this even posted?

Amazon got the TLD years ago:

nic.amazon

It would be great if @News didn't auto-spam namepros and bury actual human generated content.

"Hand-picked"... like boogers.