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Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million

Posted by Soulskill on from the totall-just-short-of-free-shipping dept.

onproton writes: Amazon outbid Google at the ICANN auction this week for the top-level domain .buy , to which it now has exclusive rights, paying around $4.6 million for the privilege. Google was also reportedly outbid for the .tech domain, which went for around $6.7 million. No word yet on Amazon's plans for the new domain suffix, but it's probably safe to say amazonsucks.buy will be added to Amazon's collection of reserved anti-Amazon URLs.

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  1. I'm sure Google will get .borg by swschrad · · Score: 1, Funny

    and there really needs to be only one address in the TLD, am I right, guys?

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    if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
    1. Re:I'm sure Google will get .borg by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

      Let's try this. Getting an entire unimatrix is like getting an entire class A IP6 network. Completely pointless. Which is why we have just stuck with unimatrix 1.
       
      --Bill Gates

  2. Re:i.buy by jeauxkewl · · Score: 4, Funny

    Buy.com should buy buy.buy from Amazon.

  3. Re:Uhm... can I block this? by Tablizer · · Score: 3, Funny

    I don't buy your argument.

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    Table-ized A.I.
  4. Re:i.buy by mythosaz · · Score: 4, Funny

    "Bye bye buy.buy." -Buy

  5. Greatest price war ever by Jumunquo · · Score: 4, Funny

    Wait until they auction off the .sucks TLD!