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Originally Posted by ApK
If TLDs are to be had by private owners, I have no problem with Amazon owning .book, as opposed to some other company owning it, but I'm not yet comfortable with the idea of private ownership of TLDs.
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Once they decided to allow those strings as domains it followed that those with a vested interest in each segment would need to control it. If you look at the domains in question, the owners are really the primary stakeholders. Like IBM. SAMSUNG. etc outfits that can't allow such a domain to exist outside their control. (Amazon tried to get .Amazon for that very reason.)
There really isn't all that much positive value in owning them (which is why they're so cheap) but the (potential) negative value from not owning them is higher. Which is so many whine after the fact.
As I pointed out, nobody has requested .literature so it remains open. But the moment somebody picks it up is when the whining begins.
Nobody cares about .banana but the moment the monkey secures it is the moment chiquita and all the minions start griping.