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I reckon let the amazonians have .amazon and they let amazon the company have amazon.amazon


Amazonians can bid for .amazonia should they want to.

There is absolutely no reason why they should be given rights on .amazon, a foreign word that doesn't exist in their own language.


Note that Amazonia is one (of multiple) localization of Amazon - it's just as foreign.

Note also that it is a well-established standard for TLDs to use English - e.g. .fi instead of .su.


Counter examples abound, since as of August 2018 there were 59 approved internationalized country code top-level domains, 47+ of them actually used (Wikipedia)

.рф (Russia) 900000+ domains, .台灣 (Taiwan) 500000+ domains, .中国 (China) 200000+ domains, etc.

See also .tp (Timor Português), .cs (Československo), .dd (Deutsche Demokratische Republik), .de (Deutschland), .rs (Republika Srbija), etc for examples using the latin alphabet.


True - it would be more accurate to say that both English and non-English TLDs are common.


Amazon the company should logically have Amazon.com, since that's literally what that stands for.




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