Amazon is looking to nab a slew of compelling names, and if things unfold the way Amazon hopes, the outcome of this power play could reshape the world of Internet commerce -- at least as it relates to the behemoth that is Amazon. Here's the roster of terms Amazon is hoping to grab, excluding some non-Latin names:
(Credit: Illustration by James Martin)
While Amazon aims to clean up in what's becoming the biggest Internet landgrab ever, the public -- individuals or business owners -- is fated to play the role of bystander in this cyberdrama. Amazon's names won't be open to the public in the way that, say, .com names are, where anyone can register AnythingTheyWant.com. Want to own Chocolate.shop? Forget it. As Amazon says clearly: "All domains in the .SHOP registry will remain the property of Amazon."
Amazon is among the biggest players partaking in the massive effort by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to vastly expand the domain name system. ICANN has let anyone with the money and technical chops bid for the right to run a so-called generic top-level domain, or gTLD, and last week it revealed which companies and entities are going for which gTLDs, also known as "strings."
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(Credit: Illustration by James Martin)
While Amazon aims to clean up in what's becoming the biggest Internet landgrab ever, the public -- individuals or business owners -- is fated to play the role of bystander in this cyberdrama. Amazon's names won't be open to the public in the way that, say, .com names are, where anyone can register AnythingTheyWant.com. Want to own Chocolate.shop? Forget it. As Amazon says clearly: "All domains in the .SHOP registry will remain the property of Amazon."
Amazon is among the biggest players partaking in the massive effort by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to vastly expand the domain name system. ICANN has let anyone with the money and technical chops bid for the right to run a so-called generic top-level domain, or gTLD, and last week it revealed which companies and entities are going for which gTLDs, also known as "strings."
More at cnet.
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