A group of countries in Latin America seems to have successfully blocked online retail giant Amazon from using “.amazon” as an Internet address suffix. A committee from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees top-level domain names, recommended that .amazon be precluded from the list of possible top-level domains. ICANN announced in 2011 that it would expand the possibilities for top-level domains to include “.cooking,” say, or “.sports.”
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Posted by: David Vranicar July 19, 2013 10:17 AMA group of countries in Latin America seems to have successfully blocked online retail giant Amazon from using “.amazon” as an Internet address suffix. A committee from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which oversees top-level domain names, recommended that .amazon be precluded from the list of possible top-level domains. ICANN announced in 2011 that it would expand the possibilities for top-level domains to include “.cooking,” say, or “.sports.”