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Amazon Becomes Domain Name Registrar

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the one-click-bwahahaha dept.

prostoalex writes "Internet's largest retailer is setting up a domain name registration business. Wall Street Journal recently found out that in December Amazon.com got approved as domain name registrar. According to people from ICANN, the registration included rights for .com, .net,. org, .biz and .info TLDs."

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  1. I can't get in. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Amazon must have been /.'ed.

  2. Re:What's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    it's called /.'s lame ass saturday night filler.

  3. Re:What's the big deal? by tarzan353 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    No, the most uninteresting news was last night's bullshit about snowflakes.

  4. No LOTR Logo/Icon? by halo8 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Why oh Why Dear Slashdot Editors dose Lord of the Rings not have a Logo? Starwars has a Logo.. the Ipod has a Logo.. why dosent LOTR?

    Think about it.. all the Posts that are going to be made over the next +2 Years for LOTR.. Movie Reiviews, Spoilers, Trailers, DVD's, DVD Reviews, Special Ed. DVD's, Cast Interviews, Award Shows, ect.. ect... ect..

    LOTR DESERVES its own Logo/Icon

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  5. Re:What's the big deal? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Where are all the trolls?

    I'm getting really bored over here.

  6. fr1st pr0st!!!!!! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    HA!

  7. Re:What's the big deal? by dupper · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    Rather than waste moderator points and get meta-modded down for the first time ever, just to recitify a drunken begrudgement, I will post a reply:

    I hate you damned trolls, whether you know you are so or not, who complain about the posting of legitimate news, invoking the logic that since the perpetrator ($foo) of said news ($bar) had previously had the power, motivation and/or ability to do whatever the story is reporting on. The fact that $foo did do $bar is what makes this news. Yes, $foo did previously have the power and motivation, but the fact that they finally put it into use for $bar is what makes this news. People who are affected by or interested in this are influenced by the fact that this has actually happened, so reporting it is both necessary and a good thing. Not doing so is ignoring what is inherently news (a new event, having bearing on numerous people) and for nerds (of or pertaining to nerdly things, the function of the internet, in this case).

    Also, please excuse any errors, grammatical, repetitive, pertaining to spelling or logical in this post; as I stated before, I am somewhat inebriated. Remembering the mantra "never mod while drunk", I have opted not to, and have thus posted this reply, instead.

  8. Re:What's the big deal? by xingix · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    By the way, I'm still kinda new to this Slashdot thing. What the hell is a troll anyway? I browse Slashdot and read the articles almost every day and rarely post. Seems people complain about posts more on here than any Insightful comments. But I agree with you in that my post shouldn't have been modded as Insightful as it was just a thought. My post was on topic so who cares.

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