<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 24px; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><div>Thanks for including us Marita .. Hope this message finds everyone well ..</div><div><br></div><div>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 ..</div><div><br></div><div>Appropriating the name / culture / history of an entire nation / region is wrong for so many reasons and needs to be challenged by everyone ..</div><div><br></div><div><span style="font-size: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap; font-family: 'Times New Roman', Times, serif;">No = it belongs to the people of that region</span><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans [monotype]'; font-size: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;"> ..</span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans [monotype]'; font-size: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family: 'Noto Sans [monotype]'; font-size: 21px; white-space: pre-wrap;">Brian</span></div><div><br></div><span id="OLK_SRC_BODY_SECTION"><div style="font-family:Calibri; font-size:11pt; text-align:left; color:black; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; PADDING-BOTTOM: 0in; PADDING-LEFT: 0in; PADDING-RIGHT: 0in; BORDER-TOP: #b5c4df 1pt solid; BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; PADDING-TOP: 3pt"><span style="font-weight:bold">From: </span> Marita Moll <<a href="mailto:mmoll@ca.inter.net">mmoll@ca.inter.net</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Date: </span> Sat, 28 Oct 2017 20:31:34 +0400<br><span style="font-weight:bold">To: </span> TC Advisors <<a href="mailto:advisors@tc.ca">advisors@tc.ca</a>><br><span style="font-weight:bold">Subject: </span> [Advisors] Have your say -- .amazon straw poll<br></div><div><br></div><div>
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<p><font face="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>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Here is some
background on this controversy:</font></p>
<p><a moz-do-not-send="true" href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/"><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/</font></a></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">If you feel so
inclined, just send me back a <br>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Yes = let Amazon (Jeff
Bezos) have it</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">No = it belongs to the
people of that region</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Cheers</font></p>
<p><font face="Times New Roman,Times,serif">Marita</font><br>
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