Amazon may finally get its hands on .amazon after world's DNS overseer loses patience Amazon may finally get its hands on the .amazon top-level domain it craves, having been blocked for years by the governments of Brazil and Peru, after ICANN finally lost its patience. In an exhaustive rundown of the bureaucratic battle that has been waged for seven years over the top-level domain, this week the ICANN Board …
And why do these companies want those TLDs? They already have the respective .com domains, and nobody is going to take them away from them. Whatever thing they would have put in their .amazon tld can also be put in the exact same place in .amazon.com. Ditto for all the other companies setting up domains. These additional domains don't seem to serve any purpose to users or companies.
The whole "because phishing" thing never seemed all that valid to me.
Consider that the folks who are likely to get scammed by such would fall for the scam if it came from thisisascam.youidiot.com just as easily as if it came from apple.NewExoticTLD ... so why waste time and money registering new domains just for scams?
And ESPECIALLY why bother inventing a new, functional TLD? If it doesn't exist in the first place, how could scammers use it?
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Nearly 20 years ago I spent a few months out there, and had no issues getting online in Manaus or most of the other towns and villages. If you could see a phone line you could bet on finding an internet cafe within a few hundred yards. Bigger problem was keeping the local molds and fungi from trying to breed inside the little laptop I was carrying.
Some people think technology hasn't progressed the way it has. Had they said that the people there probably wouldn't care about the domain, they'd probably be correct. But they have to go the whole distance to try to make this dispute sound even more ridiculous than it is and say that there is no internet access there. A bit of an oversight.
Those interpreting the "no internet" thing as "in not any place close to the Amazon river" would be of course right to point out that's not true - particularly in the larger cities; but I'd still wager the vast majority of the jungle the Amazon goes through has a serious deficit in not only internet-capable hardware but indeed human presence altogether - and wherever else spears and bows are still mostly the norm of local weapons technology, internet cafes are likely still spread awfully thin on the ground.
Satellites providing internet service orbit in range of the rain forest, and plenty of places that are less urbanized have mobile coverage. The uninhabited areas probably don't, but we're talking about the people who live there, and a lot of them have access to communications tech as much as anyone else.
No, no, no. Not since the fairytale merchants[1] enacted legislation making that illegal.
What you do now is hire a local PR company, for a shitload of cash, to lobby on your behalf. They repack the cash in suitcases and hire hookers to deliver it for you. This is more expensive as the local firm will cream off 10% themselves.
Quite a few countries now have legislation enforcing the use of local PR firms to act as intermediaries, allegedly to ensure everything is kept above board but actually for precisely the opposite reason.
[1] Once upon a time we made bribery illegal, that stopped it happening and we all lived happily ever after. The End.
The fight is over who gets full control of the .amazon TLD. ICANN would not need to get involved about anything lower. There's already a bunch of companies that have their own TLD, like .google and .apple and .microsoft; the list is long.
They should have stuck to the old system and made it even more rigid, insisting that companies may only use a .com or .co. domain. It was obvious from its announcement that this new TLD system would only make things a confusing mess.
I also think companies who cannot call themselves by an original name, instead redefining words, deserve scorn. Amazon is first and foremost a rainforest.
Like everything to do with the tech mega-corps, the only thing that matters is money. Whilst they continue to do everything possible to bend and break rules/regulation and distort markets for their own benefit they will.
Bluntly, the regulation to control them is long overdue and because of that they now wield so much power (=money), they are essentially beyond regulation. It was always going to happen and the corrupt political system in the US has allowed it because the only thing that appears to matter is how much money goes into a political campaign.
I really don't see how there can be any good outcome as anyone with the political will to do it will never get elected. The EU may just be able to do something but these slimeballs will just find ways round it. This is a global problem that originated in the US and the seed was what was perceived to be unlimited returns by greedy venture capitalists.
Unfortunately it is still going on with the like of the IPO for Lyft, a loss making company that owns almost nothing but is deemed to be worth billions.
(Just so I can say "I said this back in 2019!")
After ICANN judge they've shaken down everyone as much as they can with custom TLDs, the next plan is to offer comma-separated versions.
They might even offer a discount if you already have the dot equivalent.
If I had any decision making power at ICANN I'd be getting an underling to write up a business case for every last punctuation mark in unicode - trebles all round!
(Boy George should get ,chameleon of course.)
> and the fact that .amazon domain names may exist on
> the internet and be used to sell products has no actual
> impact on the Amazon or the people that live in the
> Amazonas region
This is especially true since you can't find any hardwood furniture on Amazon.dot.com, period.com, full-stop.com.
No hardwood furniture on Amazon? Are you sure?
https://www.amazon.com/Breakaway-Balsa-Special-Effects-Lightweight/dp/B008WDA1IS
Yes, kiddies, Balsa is a hardwood ... However, should you mean traditional hardwood:
https://www.amazon.com/oak-furniture/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Aoak%20furniture
And if, by chance, you actually mean so-called "tropical" hardwood:
https://www.amazon.com/teak-furniture/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3Ateak%20furniture
https://www.amazon.com/Mahogany-Furniture/s?page=1&rh=i%3Aaps%2Ck%3AMahogany%20Furniture
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