Fiction Books

40 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

167

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

37 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

[–] susul@misskey.heonian.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gabe@literature.cafe what if DNS providers disagreed?

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Unsure, it would be very interesting to see if they decided to though. There was major concern raised from Barnes and Noble before Amazon swiped the domains from them.

[–] susul@misskey.heonian.org 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

@gabe@literature.cafe does amazon have any actual legal "ownership" over these TLDs? would there be repercussions for a DNS provider not acknowledging their "ownership"?

[–] gabe@literature.cafe 1 points 1 year ago

Yes, they legally own those TLDs and there likely would be repercussions due to Amazons aggressive legal tactics whenever anyone remotely crosses them.