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That is a ridiculous statement. My first name is Travis. I am not the owner of https://travis.io/ https://travis.io/ but somehow we coexist. That's because e
by travisoneill1 7y ago
That is a ridiculous statement. My first name is Travis. I am not the owner of https://travis.io/ https://travis.io/ but somehow we coexist. That's because even though the name clearly exists, no one owns it. But this guy owns the domain because he registered it first. By your logic this would come down to who the oldest person with the name is. It sounds stupid in this context because it is. There is no principal here, just a money grab by some South American countries who had no interest in the domain until someone rich registered it. If it was a matter of principal they would have objected when Bezos registered amazon.com, but he wasn't a billionaire then, so they didn't care.
- leni536 7y agoWell, you don't own .travis though. Nobody complains that Amazon owns amazon.com
- travisoneill1 7y agoFair point, but a general objection to privately owned TLD's is not what is being argued in this case.
- ViViDboarder 7y agoNo, but it is being argued that it’s different/more significant than a standard domain. Why would Amazonian nations care about Amazon.com? It’s a company called amazon on a commercial TLD. They aren’t even commercial entities. As a TLD it offers a much more broad use.
- fastball 7y ago.amazon is also a commercial TLD if AMZN buys it.
- travisoneill1 7y agoThis is increasingly less tru as TLD's like .amazon are being given out. There's no reason that a or b in format a.b is more important, other than the fact that the arbitrary convention exists that a can be anything but b can only be one of a few choices.