On: South American nations open fire on ICANN for 'ill...

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It seems from the article that they just wanted to extract money out of Amazon. Moreover, they never gave a single reason on why they didn’t want Amazon to have the domain.

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This is what the ACTO requested [0]:

- a joint steering committee (ACTO and Amazon) for .amazon, giving ACTO countries the right to veto domains;

- delegation of second-level domains to ACTO countries;

- commitment from Amazon not to register domains that have significance to the region.

I haven't seen any news that suggest they were trying to extract money out of Amazon. It was Amazon that was flaunting money at ACTO.

[0] https://www.icann.org/en/system/files/correspondence/zaluar-..., http://www.itamaraty.gov.br/pt-BR/notas-a-imprensa/20312-sol...

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I vaguely remember something along the lines of using "Amazon isn't spelled Amazon in any of the countries in South America" as an argument.

A pretty stupid argument if you ask me.

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It's not even technically correct: Guyana's official language is English. (Though it just barely includes any of the Amazon basin.)