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Amazon can't own .amazon domain name
I could wax poetic here about the meaningfulness of the new generic top level domain names (gTLDs), but I will not waste my breath nor your time. It's interesting to note though that Amazon just failed to turn their brand name into a domain. According to Greg Bensinger of the WSJ Blogs:
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07-20-2013, 07:11 AM | #2 |
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Perhaps there will be a general prohibition against commercial ownership of geographic names (Patagonia was also denied). That seem like a reasonably good principle to me. I'm sure the people of Washington state would be unhappy if Blackberry took over .cascades, for example.
Looking at .book, .news, or .reader, I'd say that generic nouns and verbs should be off-limits as well. |
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