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<p>I had to think about this one. My answer is I'm not sure. This is what country codes are for yet in this case the Amazon is bigger than one country. I don't like Amazon the company but I can't think of a reason to deny them other than I don't like them.
That is not a valid reason. I'd have to see both applications in great detail and spend some time discussing it before I could decide. In the ned it might just come down to who applied first.</p>
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<div id="divRplyFwdMsg" dir="ltr"><font face="Calibri, sans-serif" color="#000000" style="font-size:11pt"><b>From:</b> advisors-bounces@tc.ca <advisors-bounces@tc.ca> on behalf of Marita Moll <mmoll@ca.inter.net><br>
<b>Sent:</b> October 28, 2017 9:31 AM<br>
<b>To:</b> TC Advisors<br>
<b>Subject:</b> [Advisors] Have your say -- .amazon straw poll</font>
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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
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">Here is some background on this controversy:</font></p>
<p><a href="https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/" id="LPlnk459090" previewremoved="true"><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">https://www.theregister.co.uk/2017/09/27/brazil_dot_amazon_gtld/</font></a></p>
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<p><font face="Times New Roman, Times, serif">If you feel so inclined, just send me back a
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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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