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Re:Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain by zokier on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:15AM (#7778331)
> .com is owned by a single company(and other top level domains owned by other companies), why shouldn't more companies own other top level domains?

I'd be for abolising .com (and other gtlds) too.

Re:Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain by damon_c on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @10:45AM (#7778494)
That seems like it could be a little messy... are you sure?

Also, if you think about what the world might be like 50 years from now, ".com" and ".org" might be remnants of the past we remember fondly. They will likely become less important on their own.

Re:Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain by Crito on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @11:13AM (#7778646)
Since he specifically called out gtld's, I suspect he is a fan of cctld's.

The only real problem as far as I see it with cctlds is that it reinforces the notion that you must pick a country to be subservient to, but you aren't really escaping that by using gtlds..

Re:Amazon Loses Bid For .Amazon Domain by zokier on Wednesday May 21, 2014 @11:33AM (#7778783)
Yes, I'm a fan on cctlds. Only exception I'd be willing to accept might be .int for organizations like UN that are truly outside any country. Like it or not, everyone else is subject to some country or another.