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Wouldn't it be better to petition to get .acto as their representative cctld equivalent? Maybe I'm just old fashioned or something but it feels more "official"

by corobo 8y ago

Wouldn't it be better to petition to get .acto as their representative cctld equivalent? Maybe I'm just old fashioned or something but it feels more "official" to use a shortened/acronym/initialization than to want to use .amazon, which is also already established as the brand rather than the location

CydeWeys 8y ago
What would .acto mean? Also, ccTLDs are two letters long, not four. If it's three or more letters long then it's always a gTLD.
- t3rabytes 8y ago
  Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (Not agreeing that it's a great TLD)
- corobo 8y ago
  Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization as t3rabytes mentioned, it's the organization formed by the countries involved. Correct, I meant gTLD. I couldn't think of the proper term at the time.
  - detaro 8y ago
    Turning this around: So if you saw an ad with nothing else but "visit now at https://goto.acto" https://goto.acto" you might potentially think "that's probably a place get info on the river and/or the rainforest"?
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    - CydeWeys 8y ago
      Yeah, that's just not a great TLD. No one will know what it means. .amazon is much better and it's obvious why they would want that one more.
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ceejayoz 8y ago
Amazon the brand named themselves after the river - their original logo was a depiction of a river. It was well established as a location by the 1990s.
- corobo 8y ago
  I'm talking about the TLD rather than the name. dotAmazon is known to represent the company Amazon
  - ceejayoz 8y ago
    No, it's not. I haven't seen a single .amazon domain in use yet, and they only got the greenlight to move ahead in October. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20181025_icann_gives_the_green_signal_on_dot_amazon_tld_for_company/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20181025_icann_gives_the_green...
    - corobo 8y ago
      So if you saw an ad with nothing else but "visit now at https://goto.amazon" https://goto.amazon" you might potentially think "that's probably a place get info on the river and/or the rainforest"? I have my doubts, but each to their own
      - ceejayoz 8y ago
        I'd think "what a shitty ad with zero context".
      - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
        "Go to" implies going to a physical place, so for this specific example I actually disagree and would assume that it would belong to some Amazonian tourist board. But for most other examples I'd probably assume Amazon the company.

by corobo 8y ago

CydeWeys 8y ago

What would .acto mean? Also, ccTLDs are two letters long, not four. If it's three or more letters long then it's always a gTLD.

t3rabytes 8y ago
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (Not agreeing that it's a great TLD)
corobo 8y ago
Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization as t3rabytes mentioned, it's the organization formed by the countries involved. Correct, I meant gTLD. I couldn't think of the proper term at the time.
- detaro 8y ago
  Turning this around: So if you saw an ad with nothing else but "visit now at https://goto.acto" https://goto.acto" you might potentially think "that's probably a place get info on the river and/or the rainforest"?
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  - CydeWeys 8y ago
    Yeah, that's just not a great TLD. No one will know what it means. .amazon is much better and it's obvious why they would want that one more.
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ceejayoz 8y ago

Amazon the brand named themselves after the river - their original logo was a depiction of a river. It was well established as a location by the 1990s.

corobo 8y ago
I'm talking about the TLD rather than the name. dotAmazon is known to represent the company Amazon
- ceejayoz 8y ago
  No, it's not. I haven't seen a single .amazon domain in use yet, and they only got the greenlight to move ahead in October. http://www.circleid.com/posts/20181025_icann_gives_the_green_signal_on_dot_amazon_tld_for_company/ http://www.circleid.com/posts/20181025_icann_gives_the_green...
  - corobo 8y ago
    So if you saw an ad with nothing else but "visit now at https://goto.amazon" https://goto.amazon" you might potentially think "that's probably a place get info on the river and/or the rainforest"? I have my doubts, but each to their own
    - ceejayoz 8y ago
      I'd think "what a shitty ad with zero context".
    - SmellyGeekBoy 8y ago
      "Go to" implies going to a physical place, so for this specific example I actually disagree and would assume that it would belong to some Amazonian tourist board. But for most other examples I'd probably assume Amazon the company.