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> Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019. Not to be that

> Giving .Amazon to the company and not the brazilian-peruvian group that wanted to run it was really a fine example of icann in the year 2019. Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead? If you said that the actual group of mythical woman should have gotten it I would say maybe you have a point, but then we would have to first figure out how mythical creatures can own things.

walrus01 7y ago
Personally I think it's a bad idea for any corporation to have a whole gtld, Amazon or otherwise.
- kristopolous 7y ago
  it's been like this since the 90s though. Things like .CX, .TV etc were managed by small firms who bought the rights and thought they could make megabucks with it ...
  - walrus01 7y ago
    those aren't gtlds, those are cctlds where the "ministry of communications" or equivalent in some tiny country has been sufficiently bribed by a bunch of domain registrar grifters.
salawat 7y ago
>Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead? News flash: You're being that guy. They have a far more legitimate claim because they administer the majority of the geological zone known as the Amazon Basin, and have since long before Amazon the company was a twinkle in Bezos' eye? I mean... I'm hoping you were being tongue-in-cheek... Nowadays it seems to be getting more difficult to separate the jokers from those who just haven't quite thought through things long enough before posting.
- akerl_ 7y ago
  Notably, it’s not called “the Amazon Basin” to the people who live there (given that English is not their primary language).
  - walrus01 7y ago
    You may be talking about the indigenous languages of the region, but the whole region is literally called "Amazonas" in Spanish and Portuguese. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas
- privateSFacct 7y ago
  The word Amazon is an English word from Latin from Greek. It goes WAY back before peruvian groups were calling the Amazon the Amazon. Secondly, the idea that peruvian groups called the Río Marañón and Rio Solimões the Amazon before it was called the Amazon in english seems a bit unlikely.
  - salawat 7y ago
    Given the tech world seems to have centralized around English as the lingua franca as it were, I believe this argument can be safely dismissed. Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians.
    - ailideex 7y ago
      > Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians. I'm not sure I see why someone contesting it makes them have a valid claim.
- kabwj 7y ago
  Someone who disagrees with you is either a joker or someone who hasn’t thought through things long enough.

walrus01 7y ago

Personally I think it's a bad idea for any corporation to have a whole gtld, Amazon or otherwise.

kristopolous 7y ago
it's been like this since the 90s though. Things like .CX, .TV etc were managed by small firms who bought the rights and thought they could make megabucks with it ...
- walrus01 7y ago
  those aren't gtlds, those are cctlds where the "ministry of communications" or equivalent in some tiny country has been sufficiently bribed by a bunch of domain registrar grifters.

salawat 7y ago

>Not to be that guy - but why should the brazilian-peruvian group have gotten it instead? News flash: You're being that guy. They have a far more legitimate claim because they administer the majority of the geological zone known as the Amazon Basin, and have since long before Amazon the company was a twinkle in Bezos' eye? I mean... I'm hoping you were being tongue-in-cheek... Nowadays it seems to be getting more difficult to separate the jokers from those who just haven't quite thought through things long enough before posting.

akerl_ 7y ago
Notably, it’s not called “the Amazon Basin” to the people who live there (given that English is not their primary language).
- walrus01 7y ago
  You may be talking about the indigenous languages of the region, but the whole region is literally called "Amazonas" in Spanish and Portuguese. https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Amazonas
privateSFacct 7y ago
The word Amazon is an English word from Latin from Greek. It goes WAY back before peruvian groups were calling the Amazon the Amazon. Secondly, the idea that peruvian groups called the Río Marañón and Rio Solimões the Amazon before it was called the Amazon in english seems a bit unlikely.
- salawat 7y ago
  Given the tech world seems to have centralized around English as the lingua franca as it were, I believe this argument can be safely dismissed. Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians.
  - ailideex 7y ago
    > Further, if they didn't want it, they were free to not contest it. They contested it. Given the circumstances, I see no leg to stand on to deny a more legitimate claim being held by Peruvians. I'm not sure I see why someone contesting it makes them have a valid claim.
kabwj 7y ago
Someone who disagrees with you is either a joker or someone who hasn’t thought through things long enough.