Amazon's Quest For Web Names Draws Foes

quantr writes in with a story about backlash to Amazon's request for ownership of new top-level domain names. "Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s plans are coming under particular scrutiny. Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are objecting to the online retailer's request for ownership of new top-level domain names that are part of a long-awaited expansion of the Web's addressing scheme. They argue that giving Amazon control over such addresses—which include '.book,' '.author' and '.read'—would be a threat to competition and shouldn't be allowed. 'Placing such generic domains in private hands is plainly anti-competitive,' wrote Scott Turow, Authors Guild president, to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or ICANN, the nonprofit that oversees the world's Internet domain names. 'The potential for abuse seems limitless.'"

Comments

"But they gave us a LOT of money" replies ICANN

[Looker_Device]

I mean a SHITLOAD of money! Did YOU give us a shitload of money?

Re:How about Amazon ...

[shutdown -p now]

Great idea! Seriously. Then the store can use .amazonshopping, or .amazonstore

Or amazoncompany. And they can then shorten it to amazon.com!