[walrus01]

Ever since icann lifted the floodgates on all the new gTLDs, it's been almost nothing but unmitigated mediocrity. Follow the money, look at how much a company like donuts pays to icann for the "application fee" for each individual gtld.

Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019.

[ailideex]

> Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019.

Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead? If you said that the actual group of mythical woman should have gotten it I would say maybe you have a point, but then we would have to first figure out how mythical creatures can own things.

[salawat]

>Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead?

News flash: You're being that guy.

They have a far more legitimate claim because they administer the majority of the geological zone known as the Amazon Basin, and have since long before Amazon the company was a twinkle in Bezos' eye?

I mean... I'm hoping you were being tongue-in-cheek... Nowadays it seems to be getting more difficult to separate the jokers from those who just haven't quite thought through things long enough before posting.

[akerl_]

Notably, it’s not called “the Amazon Basin” to the people who live there (given that English is not their primary language).

[walrus01]

You may be talking about the indigenous languages of the region, but the whole region is literally called "Amazonas" in Spanish and Portuguese.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas

[privateSFacct]

The word Amazon is an English word from Latin from Greek. It goes WAY back before peruvian groups were calling the Amazon the Amazon.

Secondly, the idea that peruvian groups called the Río Marañón and Rio Solimões the Amazon before it was called the Amazon in english seems a bit unlikely.

[salawat]

Given the tech world seems to have centralized around English as the lingua franca as it were, I believe this argument can be safely dismissed.

Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians.

[ailideex]

> Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians.

I'm not sure I see why someone contesting it makes them have a valid claim.

[ailideex]

> They have a far more legitimate claim because they administer the majority of the geological zone known as the Amazon Basin, and have since long before Amazon the company was a twinkle in Bezos' eye?

https://www.theregister.co.uk/2018/10/25/amazon_domain_kindl...

> And this week, we got to see the end result of those negotiations. According to a letter [PDF] sent by the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization's (ACTO) – which has been in talks with the mega-corporation for more than a year - Amazon offered to:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_Cooperation_Treaty_Orga...

> Established 1995

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon_(company)

> July 5, 1994;

Got them beat by at least some months ...

[kabwj]

Someone who disagrees with you is either a joker or someone who hasn’t thought through things long enough.

[walrus01]

Personally I think it's a bad idea for any corporation to have a whole gtld, Amazon or otherwise.

[kristopolous]

it's been like this since the 90s though. Things like .CX, .TV etc were managed by small firms who bought the rights and thought they could make megabucks with it ...

[walrus01]

those aren't gtlds, those are cctlds where the "ministry of communications" or equivalent in some tiny country has been sufficiently bribed by a bunch of domain registrar grifters.