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Amazon Purchases .buy TLD For $4.6 Million
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.
and there really needs to be only one address in the TLD, am I right, guys?
if this is supposed to be a new economy, how come they still want my old fashioned money?
Actually, if they have exclusive rights to .buy that means no one else is allowed to register amazonsucks.buy. So that wouldn't make any sense for them to register it at all.
This makes no sense other than being a money grab... Amazon can now charge Barnes and Noble for bn.buy, or redirect it back to Amazon. It seems .buy will just be a redirect to some page on Amazon, or be something trademark owners must buy in order to protect. Remember .cc resulted in refunds from Clear Channel.
ICANN should really get ready for a dispute resolution session from buy.com...
Buy.com should buy buy.buy from Amazon.
Dr.Evil?
Wikipedia states:
This auction is a blatant contradiction of these principles. An auction does promote a narrow sort of competition, technically, but anyone who didn't have millions of dollars to spare had no opportunity to participate. Now that Amazon has won, the competition is over, and the global Internet community can go broadly fuck themselves.
We should expect much better from the non-profit organization in charge of the world's domain names.
Google was also reportedly outbid for the .tech domain, which went for around $6.7 million.
Outbid at a paltry $6.7m? Sounds to me like Google had zero real interest.
systemd is Roko's Basilisk.
People just look at domains at BestBuy, then purchase them from Amazon.
My God, it's Full of Source!
OUTSIDE_IP=$(dig +short my.ip @outsideip.net)
Amazon discovered it was for sale when they visited "buy.buy".
Table-ized A.I.
Selling entire TLDs to companies is as stupidly shortsighted as giving large IPv4 blocks to companies in the early days of the internet.
"Bye bye buy.buy." -Buy
Selling entire TLDs to companies..
Companies like ICANN?
I seriously doubt there are millions to make from a TLD. This is an odd investment.
The smart guys are the one that managed to sell a TLD at that price. Who wins the money paid for new TLD auctions, BTW?
Heh. At first glance, I misread the title as "Amazon Products buy .TLD For $4.6 Million" and then quickly realised my mistake--but now I think ICANN should sell the .tld TLD to me. :)
Il n'y a pas de Planet B.
I wonder how much they would sell the .com TLD for? Hmmm.
should just be registered like ALL domains. let it be first come, first serve, and charge just a little bit more. so amazon could just get .amazon, etc. it makes way more sense than "oh noes, we can't have these tlds in the wild!". can current dns systems not handle that?
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Exactly. We really need to replace DNS with something that is distributed. Something closer to bitcoin.
Ideally there would be a way to register a new domain and then all the nodes come to an agreement and
after that point if there is a dispute then all the nodes can vote on who owns that domain. Something
outside the control of any one organization or country where noone had the ability to DDOS a dns
provider, make a website go dark by confiscating its domain, etc...
Wait until they auction off the .sucks TLD!
The idiocy of new TLDs is revealed for what it is: a way for ICANN to make money. None of this makes things better for website owners or consumers.
No it won't be added to that list, because Amazon now controls this TLD. It controls what kind of domains appear there. It may not even open this to others.
Don't worry, it's all just 1's and 0's anyway...
How much of this nonsense are we going to let them get away with?
One of the few points of centralisation on the Internet, and sure enough, they're screwing us.
How one would go about killing ICANN, I don't know...
Google won the search wars because it ignored what content providers thought should be top of the listings (but let them buy ads), and put what search USERS should be top of the listings. That's how it got where it is and why it's stayed where it is. That's why there are entire businesses based around trying to get your site to the top of Google without getting chucked off their listings - because it's not as easy as just asking, or paying, or tricking Google.
Hence, if ".buy" suddenly starts getting to tops of listings where you have no reason or interest of it being there, then Google will suffer - as well as ".buy"
Decent search made domain names obsolete. I don't even know the domain of many of my favourite sites, but I know an exact Google search that will list them in the top 10 if I ever need them (e.g. I lose my bookmarks). That's why I don't get why people still are buying anything more than a single, relevant domain for themselves.
Seriously, what difference do you get in search rankings if you search from a mobile? Google knows you're on mobile. You can search for mobile terms. Now how many of those results are actually of ".mobi" sites?
TLD's and domain names are money-grabs. They only have any effect on "dumb" search engines that are already selling your entire front page to the highest bidder.