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Re:South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' s... by ViViDboarder on Sunday January 26, 2020 @08:56AM (#22152075)
No, but it is being argued that it’s different/more significant than a standard domain.

Why would Amazonian nations care about Amazon.com? It’s a company called amazon on a commercial TLD. They aren’t even commercial entities.

As a TLD it offers a much more broad use.

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Re:South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' s... by travisoneill1 on Sunday January 26, 2020 @10:07AM (#22152370)
This is increasingly less tru as TLD's like .amazon are being given out. There's no reason that a or b in format a.b is more important, other than the fact that the arbitrary convention exists that a can be anything but b can only be one of a few choices.
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Re:South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' s... by fastball on Sunday January 26, 2020 @09:50AM (#22152304)
.amazon is also a commercial TLD if AMZN buys it.
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Re:South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' s... by anoncake on Sunday January 26, 2020 @12:27PM (#22153307)
It's a top level domain, not one in the .com namespace.
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Re:South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'illegal' s... by fastball on Saturday February 01, 2020 @10:54AM (#22211128)
A top level domain used for commercial purposes is in fact a commercial TLD. It's not the commercial TLD, but it is "a commercial TLD".
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