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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Hello Marita,</p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">In the spirit of humans first:</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><br />No = it belongs to the people of that region<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">On October 28, 2017 20:31:34 Marita Moll wrote:<br /></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">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. <br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">Here is some background on this controversy:</span> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif'; text-decoration: underline; color:#0057ae;">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/</span></a> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">If you feel so inclined, just send me back a <br /></span></p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">Yes = let Amazon (Jeff Bezos) have it</span> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">No = it belongs to the people of that region</span> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">Cheers</span> </p>
<p style=" margin-top:12px; margin-bottom:12px; margin-left:40px; margin-right:40px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;"><span style=" font-family:'Times New Roman, Times, serif';">Marita</span><br /></p>
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<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Regards,</p>
<p style=" margin-top:0px; margin-bottom:0px; margin-left:0px; margin-right:0px; -qt-block-indent:0; text-indent:0px; -qt-user-state:0;">Kevin</p></body></html>