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>All domains in the .BOT registry will remain the property of Amazon. according to http://icannwiki.com/.bot http://icannwiki.com/.bot

• serge2k 11y ago
  I still find private companies taking generic TLDs like this (that's probably a bad term, I'm trying to say I have a problem with .bot but not say, .aws) a pretty awful idea. What is the point? Why should Amazon get to buy a chunk of the DNS system like this?
  • icebraining 11y ago
    Why not? It's just one extra level, why should it be sacred?
    • serge2k 11y ago
      http://sealedabstract.com/rants/google-our-patron-saint-of-the-closed-web/ http://sealedabstract.com/rants/google-our-patron-saint-of-t... that sums it up fairly well.
      • icebraining 11y ago
        That doesn't actually answer my question, the assumption is still there, unexplained. So we don't get a generic .dev TLD for content targeted at software developers; so what? DNS has existed for thirty years without one, yet we've managed to show content for developers somehow, and we'll continue to do so. The new gTLD program has changed nothing of relevance for us. Does it really matter if Google paid a few hundred grand to get shorter domains? The whole discussion just reminds me of children in the playground arguing over who gets to play with the red ball.