And these will continue to exist even if Amazon.com the company secures .amazon the TLD.
I think Dave's mistake is that he believes that TLDs represent anything canonical. Originally they were meant to, but only a few do anymore[1]. In almost every case, they're just a few extra characters at the end.
But only .com and .net have no real meaning attached to them. It doesn't really make much sense to register amazon.es or amazon.biz for the Amazon rainforest, now does it?
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No, because there are hundreds of other places one can register 'amazon' as a second-level domain.
And these will continue to exist even if Amazon.com the company secures .amazon the TLD.
I think Dave's mistake is that he believes that TLDs represent anything canonical. Originally they were meant to, but only a few do anymore[1]. In almost every case, they're just a few extra characters at the end.
[1]gov and mil
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Also, .edu and a couple ccTLDs. Basically, any TLD that has a rigid filtering process for obtaining one actually means something.
There are a few absolute and total lies buried in .edu, and have been for decades.
I hesitate to mention the domain names, because I appreciate the humor in them.
Also because they were approved by John Postel himself, and he was a good guy.
But only .com and .net have no real meaning attached to them. It doesn't really make much sense to register amazon.es or amazon.biz for the Amazon rainforest, now does it?
Eh?
.com is for companies. amazon.org or amazon.info might work.
.com was for companies originally. It's been a long time since that was true.
it's still true in some country TLDs, like .com.au for example.
But that is .com.au, not .com. It's not a gTLD.