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Amazon.com is their US site. If you're there, you've effectively walked into a store in Seattle. If you want a store not tailored to the US market, you'll need
by nknighthb 12y ago
Amazon.com is their US site. If you're there, you've effectively walked into a store in Seattle. If you want a store not tailored to the US market, you'll need to visit one of the sites they've made for other countries (where this is probably not available yet).
- gchokov 12y agoTrue. But if they can "personalize" the price they show me when I buy books, why they can't personalize the web site and tell me these services are not available in my country?
- fl0wenol 12y agoThis is how you know it's just as much investor marketing as it is to get early adopters excited; they want their overseas investors to know that they're not just sitting on their laurels this quarter.
- gchokov 12y agoThey better do something meaningful. AMZN investors are not impressed lately. Some of them waited for an year to be break-even :) But that's different story...
- makeitsuckless 12y ago> Amazon.com is their US site. That's exactly the problem. .com <> US Initially this kind of behavior was "quaint" and amusingly "typically American". But in 2015 it's just f-ing annoying.
- ceejayoz 12y ago> But in 2015 it's just f-ing annoying. So's complaining about something that's been the de-facto standard for 2+ decades.
- res0nat0r 12y agoYou aren't aware of their localized .uk, .de, .jp, etc sites for they have for their markets in other countries?
- sp332 12y ago.us should be for US stores. .com is more universal.
- res0nat0r 12y agoBack when Amazon was registered I doubt anyone was using .us for a company website, so changing everything to point to that years after the fact would probably do more harm than good to the business, plus the fact that they at the start were only US based, so a .com at the time would have and still is the best choice for a US based brand identity.
- sp332 12y agoAt the time, sure. But since then they've added a bunch of country-specific domains. The store aimed at the USA could be hosted on a .us domain by now.
- res0nat0r 12y agoWhy would they want to break or redirect thousands (millions?) of existing links and confuse many non tech people who get redirected to a .us site? Sure it might make us on HN feel good that .com does not equal USA and we are the center of the world, but it would make little sense otherwise.
- sp332 12y agoWell, it would stop confusing the other 2 billion people on the internet that aren't in the USA.
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- nknighthb 12y agoSo, anyone not targeting every nation on earth must not use GTLDs?