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Mm... these TLDs fee like they’ve been a scam since the start. You want amazon? You’re a bad guy. You don’t want amazon? Someone else gets it, phishes your us
by wokwokwok 8y ago
Mm... these TLDs fee like they’ve been a scam since the start.
You want amazon? You’re a bad guy.
You don’t want amazon? Someone else gets it, phishes your users, you’re a bad guy.
It’s kind of a protection racket...
There’s a whole lot about this whole thing going at with the ICAAN I’m not comfortable with.
- spacenick88 8y agoI think the best move for Amazon would be to take the domain and just have it redirect to http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amazon http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/amazon
- CalRobert 8y agoThey were, and are. It's not even subtle. In fact, Donuts allows (allowed?) you to purchase the option to block other people registering `yourname.*` for all their tld's, at a lower price than actually getting the domains yourself. https://www.101domain.com/donuts_defensive_registration_for_trademark_owners.htm https://www.101domain.com/donuts_defensive_registration_for_... Conversations with people responsible for this product revealed the motive to be extortion.