Thread: Amazon Wins Auction for .Book Domain
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Old 11-13-2014, 05:42 AM   #19
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The Register has more relevant details:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2014/11..._level_domain/

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Bowker was reportedly the last to drop out of the auction, run by DNS overseer ICANN.

Amazon also shelled out millions for the rights to dot-pay but was, surprisingly, beaten to dot-cloud by little-known Italian company Aruba. Also applying for dot-cloud were Google and Symantec, suggesting that Aruba paid a high price for the rights to the only gTLD that the company applied for.
Now that would've really raised a ruckus if ISBN-pimper Bowker had control of .book.

Amazon probably wasn't happy losing out on .cloud but they probably don't mind as much as if they'd lost it to Microsoft or Google.

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Other new generic top-level domains that have been settled in the past week are: .chat, .dog, .earth, .film, .hot, .latino, .live, .online, .site, .sucks and .tennis. That leaves just two of the 16 domain-name extensions due to be auctioned off by 19 November: dot-dot and dot-apartments.
And there goes one serious money-making domain: .sucks.

Pretty much everybody in business needs to secure a bunch of those.
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