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Fair point, but a general objection to privately owned TLD's is not what is being argued in this case.

• ViViDboarder 7y ago
  No, 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.
    • anoncake 7y ago
      It's a top level domain, not one in the .com namespace.
      • fastball 7y ago
        A top level domain used for commercial purposes is in fact a commercial TLD. It's not the commercial TLD, but it is "a commercial TLD".
  • travisoneill1 7y ago
    This 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.