Post 9j6ruXEpCI3fM3Co5o by warrenmyers@sweetree.ga
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(DIR) Post #9j6IuQPh4gHNnCV9jE by LenieBlue@octodon.social
2019-05-23T10:12:35Z
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ICANN granted Amazon.com the domain '.amazon' today, rather than the entire geographic region of the Amazon Basin.Acts like this are colonial, obviously, but also a slap in the face to early internet promises of global representation + shared power. Its really sad.https://mashable.com/article/amazon-domain-name-icann-approved.amp/#GAFAM #GAFA #amazon(via http://everest-pipkin.com/ , thanks ! )
(DIR) Post #9j6RhDcgDXMxwjLxtQ by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2019-05-23T13:15:34Z
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@LenieBlue The names of the local rivers should not be the exclusive property of governemnts either. What if the austrian and romanian governments wanted to control the use of the word "Donau"? Or the egyptian governement wanted to sue Agatha Christie's estate for "Death on the Nile"?
(DIR) Post #9j6RpMhmKkVgQmcfS4 by feonixrift@hackers.town
2019-05-23T10:39:32Z
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@LenieBlueThis needs to be the coffin-nail of dns.
(DIR) Post #9j6RpMvxU1qv8lFzYO by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2019-05-23T13:17:02Z
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@feonixrift @LenieBlue The #DNS will continue to be used long after your fediverse account have disappeared...PS: your instance uses a TLD for the recent ICANN round, created with the same policies that allowed .amazon.
(DIR) Post #9j6S9bHFrdzbPwrhqa by dch@bsd.network
2019-05-23T10:43:23Z
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@LenieBlue luckily there's a 30 day comment period in which to communicate to Bezos & ICANN that this is unacceptable abuse of his financial reach. If enough people do this, it might make a difference.
(DIR) Post #9j6S9bRBGjvrujVdJo by amsomniac@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-05-23T12:50:52Z
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@dch @LenieBlue submitted a complaint here:https://www.icann.org/complaints-officeI hope that's the right place!
(DIR) Post #9j6S9bdwVI8mYJTpD6 by bortzmeyer@mastodon.gougere.fr
2019-05-23T13:20:40Z
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@amsomniac @dch @LenieBlue I do not claim to be an expert in #ICANN procedures but I believe the "complaints" mechanism is for cases when you believe process or rules have been violated, not just when you disagree with a decision. For the decision about .amazon, the place to comment will probably be https://www.icann.org/public-comments
(DIR) Post #9j6TeD0SFkLl4dAMqm by txt_file@chaos.social
2019-05-23T13:37:26Z
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@bortzmeyerStill better to complain at the wrong place than to stay silent.@amsomniac @dch @LenieBlue
(DIR) Post #9j6WzrQ7UQNwMKBeDI by amsomniac@mastodon.sdf.org
2019-05-23T14:14:53Z
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@bortzmeyer thank you! I'll complain there too
(DIR) Post #9j6ruXEpCI3fM3Co5o by warrenmyers@sweetree.ga
2019-05-23T13:10:48Z
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@LenieBlue not that I especially have a stick in that fire ... but is the "entire geographic region of the Amazon Basin" really doing all that much online?What about the ancient Greek mythological Amazons? or the asteroid?https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazon
(DIR) Post #9j6ruXXc4R5SIJzoNU by 0x0x@mastodon.social
2019-05-23T13:49:11Z
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@warrenmyers @LenieBlue (disclaimer, I work on gTLDs, though not at Amazon)The nations in the Amazon basin already have CC-TLDs. They had the opportunity to bid on the name when ICANN first began auctioning gTLDs if they cared about it. And frankly, their offer of "shared governance" sounds very much like an attempted power-play over Amazon Inc.If they intended to use the name, they should have sought full ownership early and aggressively.
(DIR) Post #9j6ruXvMe85NTz6mOm by m4iler@infosec.exchange
2019-05-23T18:09:21Z
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@0x0x @warrenmyers @LenieBlue This. In my mind, this is just a failed namesquat.Amazon Basin can get .amzn and be okay. Also, I'd type amzn much more readily than .amazon.
(DIR) Post #9j6w0fPw6EsyHBa9tQ by whilelm@mstdn.fr
2019-05-23T12:51:28Z
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Amazon remporte le droit d’utiliser le nom de domaine “.amazon” face à l'Amazonehttps://www.huffingtonpost.fr/entry/amazon-utiliser-nom-de-domaine-amazon_fr_5ce3e640e4b0e69c18f1bcd2Amazon touche au but. La firme vient de faire un grand pas dans un combat qu’elle mène depuis près de sept ans maintenant. L’Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN), vient de lui autoriser l’exploitation du nom de domaine “.amazon”.Cette décision, précise Business Insider, est ouverte à contestation et commentaires pendant 30 jours, après quoi elle sera définitive.
(DIR) Post #9j6zsxz9a1BfMcde9A by Jessica@niu.moe
2019-05-23T19:38:44Z
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@LenieBlue gay
(DIR) Post #9j71A2jPHsrsxbynoG by newt@niu.moe
2019-05-23T19:53:01Z
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@LenieBlue ICANN also granted .cat domain to Catalonia instead of, you know, actual cats.
(DIR) Post #9j9htMXh3tNjpFiHia by moonman@shitposter.club
2019-05-25T03:01:16.276377Z
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@lenieblue its a domain name who cares
(DIR) Post #9j9iM51hGV1htlRNbs by Ocean22@niu.moe
2019-05-25T03:06:25Z
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@LenieBlue We lost the internet to corporations We need something newIt'll never happen
(DIR) Post #9j9iWXDpHzl8F26DTs by kaikatsu@pleroma.site
2019-05-25T03:08:21.167081Z
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@moonman @LenieBlue A single company getting a specific TLD in their name is pretty bad, I'm sure you can agree to that. First it'll be shop dot amazon, then search dot google, then just "bank" for the global world bank.Okay, that's a bit of a jump, but you can see where I'm going hopefully.
(DIR) Post #9j9jDg8g0o4uLhGNKy by moonman@shitposter.club
2019-05-25T03:16:08.902778Z
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@kaikatsu google has a .google tld.i'm serious, i think it doesn't matter much that the amazon river doesn't have a tld.
(DIR) Post #9j9k1fxWxF80GptFLs by kaikatsu@pleroma.site
2019-05-25T03:25:11.147601Z
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@moonman I don't think the amazon river not having a TLD is the problem, it's more just rampant capitalism. I don't think anybody wanted a .amazon site, especially since the majority of TLDs are gimmicks outside of .com.
(DIR) Post #9j9mvYKqge6UkaZKz2 by ffs@shitasstits.life
2019-05-25T03:57:41.351290Z
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@kaikatsu .....I'm with @moonman on this: do you really care about ICANN this much? Why not OpenAlias, Namecoin, I2P, OpenNic, GNUNet, lokinet, .hosts files?Who gives a shit what ICANN does?If you give ICANN 100k, you can have a .kaikatsu TLD too, assuming you even want it.Let corp flex on themselves, they retards for wasting money.
(DIR) Post #9jCk76fTf6uM1puo9w by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2019-05-26T14:10:18.044633Z
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@kaikatsu @moonman I'm not sure why the amazon river needs a tld
(DIR) Post #9jCkS6QxjAvHNr8bIW by moonman@shitposter.club
2019-05-26T14:14:05.609359Z
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@coolboymew @kaikatsu place to sell amazon river merchandise
(DIR) Post #9jCkXDAy5XU7k35nsW by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2019-05-26T14:15:01.133452Z
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@moonman @kaikatsu Does that even exists lol?And do you really need a special TLD for that?
(DIR) Post #9jCkmqm19DsqtYsZeq by moonman@shitposter.club
2019-05-26T14:17:50.575558Z
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@coolboymew @kaikatsu to play devil's advocate, the amazon crosses multiple countries so it wouldn't be appropriate under any individual country's tld. However, they could just have a .org or somethhing.
(DIR) Post #9jCkrpwfed0Xm5EwfA by coolboymew@shitposter.club
2019-05-26T14:18:44.779130Z
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@moonman @kaikatsu Ain't special TLDs supra expensive in general anyways?