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The Amazon Rainforest Wants Its TLD Back From Amazon.com
terrancem writes "The Seattle-based Amazon.com has applied for its brand to be a generic top-level domain name (.amazon), but South American governments argue this would prevent the use of this internet address for environmental protection, the promotion of indigenous rights and other public interest uses. Along with dozens of other disputed claims to names including ".patagonia" and ".shangrila", the issue cuts to the heart of debates about the purpose and governance of the internet."
You better call Captain Planet, South America.
Because little Jeff Bezos ain't giving that up without a serious fight.
Mod me down, my New Earth Global Warmingist friends!
Sometimes I wish there were no TLDs at all. They aren't really necessary. They actually make things worse, since any owner of a domain is forced to buy several TLD versions of their domain. They only make sense if you can actually enforce the meaning of the TLD, such as how .gov TLDs are enforced.
What Bezos needs to do buy and fund a TLD for the amazon. Obviously it is not going to be amazon. On the webpages have a link redirecting to the new domain. It will likely avoid huge legal costs and generate a good deal of good will.
"She's a scientist and a lesbian. She's not going to let it slide." Orphan Black
After all, that's the origin of the name.
I eat only the real part of complex carbohydrates.
Do we really have to have this shit in EVERY FUCKING THREAD?
Seriously. What the fuck.
The original Amazons called and they want their name back from the rain forest.
Lots of people predicted that this new TLD system was going to be a mess. And... it is. Seems like it has become even more of a mess each month that goes by.
I really have to wonder why anybody would have thought that it would NOT be a mess.
Buy an Island. Call it the "Amazon Island". Make a flag, national anthem, etc. Start a wikipedia page. File for the TLD, and launder your money through your nation. Make South America suck it because you won the TLD, and no more taxes if you shop at amazon.amazon.
Haha, well I thought the free market was the savior and one true holy way to organize everything. Just let them settle it that way, bid it out.
Amazon the company could be amazon.com. Amazon the environmental organization could be amazon.org (if it weren't parked and likely squatted). Amazon the ISP (if there was one) coupld be amazon.net. etc.
But noooo, some bozos in charge decided that increasing the number of namespace collisions will somehow be better for their bank accou^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hthe Internet.
Just ignore him; don't vote him down and do not respond. These comments, and especially the downvoting, just encourage his behavior (i.e., the paranoia that he is being "suppressed"). Eventually he will run out of money or see a psychologist (hopefully the latter, mentally ill people need treatment). If you personally knew the guy, chances are you would feel sorry for him. Try to let this guide your views on the internet. We're all actually people.
No one makes you use any particular DNS server tree. In fact you can use many. You could even have a search path for various trees. This is why it is dumb for Government/courts to block/take domain names. One can always use an alt DNS system that is out of reach from the law. That domain name system could be searched first and then fall back on the IANA one.
How are the pipfruit producers of the world doing in their battle to reclaim their good name form the company formerly run by Steve Jobs?
Why not fight for Amazonas or Amazona instead?
Personally, I'm surprised the moderation staff here hasn't just "blocked out" his network range yet honestly!
Say what you want about this guy, he has some good ideas. Why wouldn't someone polluting /.'s chat have their network range blocked from posting?
I was wondering whatever became of the Panda smackdown.
Have gnu, will travel.
Do indigenous people with special "indigenous rights" -- rights that I apparently don't have, because I belong to a second class non-indigenous race -- ever help anyone with anything? Why do we owe them a favor?
Just wondering.
This may be an odd perspective, but I see this as a question of which philosophy do you agree with more?
(a) I work to live
(b) I live to work
I think that people who believe (a) are going to think that the .amazon TLD should go to some sort of amazon conservatory organization because life is more important than commerce.
While I would expect those who identify with (b) to be in favor of amazon.com owning the .amazon TLD. Because for those people, business is more important than life. Maybe not their life, but life of the general population.
Obviously I think (b) is a very small group. However, as small as it is, I would not be surprised to find that group (b) is largely populated by CxO types.
When information is power, privacy is freedom.
Amazon probably wants the .amazon tld to protect the "intellectual property" of their name.
I'm sick of marketroids.
"Nationalism is an infantile sickness. It is the measles of the human race." -Albert Einstein
Great opportunity for squatters/scammers. With all its drawbacks I still prefer the current system over your proposal. It's just that much more reliable.
If ICANN were actually managing this crap sanely it wouldn't be that hard to share. No reason that conservation.amazon and shopping.amazon couldn't both exist under different ownership.
Dear poster,
Please add the following line to your host file(s):
0.0.0.0 slashdot.org
...and they want their "something or other" back.
Oh, we're not doing that?
We don't care about that deep analysis that you keep posting. Register an account if you don't want to worry about impersonators.
pathetic... it only took me like 10 seconds to scroll past all that. at least apk leaves the whole thread basically unusable
either that or
127.0.0.1 slashdot.org
That sound you hear? Jon Postel has been spinning so much he broke a bearing. Again.
My next sig will be ready soon, but subscribers can beat the rush
this can't be the real apk because it's missing the infamous buggy python string reversing function :)
Only in English is it the "Amazon Rainforest."
In Brasil's native Portuguese, it's Floresta AmazÃnica.
Amazon.com gets .amazon, and the rainforest gets .amazonica
Problem solved.
Nobody has used .amazon yet and nobody has forgotten about the bloody rainforest before it existed.
Also its South American governments that are stripping the rainforest clean, not sure they want to shine a brighter light on that...all they have to do is just stop doing that and the problem is solved.
I haven't thought of anything clever to put here, but then again most of you haven't either.
NOBODY is going to use anything but a .com ending so it really doesn't matter.
What Amazon should do is make a deal with the South American governements to donate something towards the protection of the rainforests every year. Since it is a top level domain, Amazon can allow registration of other domains that are related to the cause. Problem solved.
In Brazil this area is referred to as The Amazonas. I imagine in the surrounding Spanish speaking countries as well. That is the one that should be used for whatever boring purposes the government may have in the future.
Can't anything remain pure?
many regions have won the right for producing regional products using the region name as a brand or origin certificate.
That's why you can buy Champagne (made in france, in the champagne region) or "Sparkling" wine (Champagne made somewhere else).
Some other products share this privilege.
Why suddenly other regions have to surrender it's "Brand" when there's no tangible product associated, but an economic activity like tourism (patagonia), or a biologic concept (amazon).
Double standards FTW....
Forests get more pissed off than Lakes when you anthropomorphise them. They reeeeealy hate it.
Not as much as Mountains, but still. I'd stay away and pay up if I were Amazon. Or ex-Amazon
Nouvelles de jeux et technologies en français. TC
Look at all you wrote, as AC. Look a tthe efort you are going through over some issue with a web site.
Seriously, you have a mental issue and need to talk to a professional psychologist or psychiatrist.
It might be a simple anger issue, or you might be suffering from delusional paranoia. Maybe even schizophrenia.
Please, get help before you hurt someone.
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amazon.org would be more appropriate.
It's parked on GoDaddy and registered to an anonymous registrant.