Fiction Books

906 readers

1 users here now

The discussion of fiction books! Please tag spoilers and follow instance rules.

To find more communities on this instance, go to: !411@literature.cafe

founded 1 year ago

MODERATORS

gabe@literature.cafe

275

Amazon owns .book and .read since 2015 yet still do not allow registrations for these domains. (literature.cafe)

submitted 1 year ago by gabe@literature.cafe to c/fiction@literature.cafe

49 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Barnes and noble wanted one of these domains and sent an appeal to ICANN. They lost the appeal.

Amazon operates these domains within a category of new domain names deemed “closed generics”, which are domain names that companies have successfully bid on or outright paid to get provisioned and own them for their own use and no one else’s. There has been persistent concern raised that this might create unfair monopolies especially for online shopping.

Amazon is the largest holder of closed generic domains on the internet. Nearly all of their domains they own are not able to be purchased and are for Amazon use only. There has been no consequences for this action and it seems unlikely there ever will for the foreseeable future as well.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[–] SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world 28 points 1 year ago (1 children)

This should be damning for ICANN. Amazon, any other corporation, or any other person shouldn't be allowed such a monopoly, but this is all dictated by money.

[–] PupBiru@kbin.social 5 points 1 year ago

ridiculous that generic TLDs weren’t offered under similar terms as standards written that include patented technologies: that they must be offered under fair and reasonable non-discriminatory terms