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First batch of new generic top-level domains born, Amazon looking unlikely to snag .amazon
After spending over a year thumbing through applications, ICANN has inked agreements for establishing the first new generic top-level domains (gTLDs). Those that made the cut this round were the Arabic word for web or network (.), game in Chinese (.), and the Russian for online (.), as well as website (.) -- as ICANN notes, these gTLDs will be the first to use non-Latin characters. Also coming out of the ICANN47 meeting for internet overlords is a bit of bad news for Amazon. A committee recommended that the retailer should not be given control of the .amazon domain, likely due to confusion the suffix could create with the Amazon region in South America. ICANN may see fit to go against the recommendation, but if Amazon's history with objectionable applications is anything to go by, it's looking like yet another $185,000 down the drain.
Via: The Verge
Source: ICANN, Wall Street Journal
Original Link: http://www.engadget.com/2013/07/18/icann-first-new-generic-top-level-domains/?utm_medium=feed&utm_source=Feed_Classic&utm_campaign=Engadget
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