[lac-discuss-en] [ALAC] IO recommends .amazon reconsideration

[Evan Leibovitch]

I read on a Facebook group, from Barry Shein, an imaginative and IMO
effective resolution to the .amazon issue. I offer it here with some
personal suggestions added regarding to 'what comes next':

Amazon pays for the creation of the ".amazonas" TLD, and entrusts it to a
nonprofit whose stakeholders are exclusively from the five countries (Brazil,
Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, Bolivia) through which the river runs. Such
stakeholders could be government, NGO or private. In return, the GAC
rescinds its objection to .amazon.

(Alternatively, dot-amazonas could be entrusted to the three regional
governments -- in Peru, Colombia and Brazil -- that are named "Amazonas".)

After all, "Amazonas" is the local name for the river in both Spanish and
Portuguese. Since elsewhere governments are turning to local names rather
than anglicized ones -- think Beijing, Iqaluit or Bengaluru -- wouldn't
this be a Good Thing and a reasonable answer to both the governments and
the bookstore?

Such an offer would dull most of the logical objection to the bookstore's
desire for the name, while calling on the affected countries to actually
indicate what they would do with an appropriate TLD, or at least to reserve
it for future use.

Would such a compromise be workable? Or would it cause a problem by putting
the current objectors on the spot regarding what they would do with the TLD
themselves?

(Perhaps this re-opens a wider problem with geoTLD names, wondering if
every possible linguistic name for countries and regions are deserving of
protection. I mean, do we need to protect "Schweiz", "Suisse",
"Svizzera", "Svizra",
"Helvetia" AND "Switzerland"?)

- Evan
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