[Advisors] Have your say -- .amazon straw poll

[Kevin Battersby]

Hello Marita,

In the spirit of humans first:


On October 28, 2017 20:31:34 Marita Moll wrote:


Hi colleagues. I am at the ICANN meeting in Abu Dhabi where a big battle is 
shaping up over who gets to use the word Amazon as a top level domain -- as in 
.amazon. Should it be a mega U.S. based retailer or the people of the Amazon 
represented by the government of Brazil? Not that it is going to be up to us, but I 
thought it would be fun to do a straw poll -- what do you think? Which way should 
it go? At the very least, I can throw your comments into the mix in a 
multistakeholder policy meeting. 


Here is some background on this controversy: 
https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/[1] 
If you feel so inclined, just send me back a 


Yes = let Amazon (Jeff Bezos) have it 
No = it belongs to the people of that region 
Cheers 
Marita

-- 
Regards,
Kevin

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[1] https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/
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