Amazon wins ‘.amazon’ domain name, aggravating South American region

The ICANN – the organisation charged with overseeing the internet’s domain names – gave exclusive rights to the US based company to administer “. They said granting a private company exclusive rights to the domain would “prevent the use of this domain for purposes of public interest related to the protection, promotion and awareness raising on issues related to the Amazon biome”. amazon” names with the ACTO states, granting nine domain names – one for the ACTO organisation and one for each state.

Source: theconversation.com