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

[Kathryn Carruthers]

No.   Amazon.com can try to buy it's domains from The Amazon (like .tv
domains from Tuvalu)

On Sat, Oct 28, 2017 at 6:42 PM, Brian Beaton <brian.beaton at knet.ca> wrote:
> Thanks for including us Marita .. Hope this message finds everyone well ..
>
> Simple .. Suggest that Jeff moves his company to the real Amazon, invest in
> protecting that essential environment, provide much needed employment and
> then share in the benefits of being able to use the domain name because it
> describes where he is ..
>
> Appropriating the name / culture / history of an entire nation / region is
> wrong for so many reasons and needs to be challenged by everyone ..
>
> No = it belongs to the people of that region ..
>
> Brian
>
> From: Marita Moll <mmoll at ca.inter.net>
> Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:31:34 +0400
> To: TC Advisors <advisors at tc.ca>
> Subject: [Advisors] Have your say -- .amazon straw poll
>
> 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/
>
> 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
>
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