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

[Jacqueline Morris]

I believe that 9 countries are involved with the Amazon region, not 3 or 5,
and that one is English speaking, one Dutch, one French, and one
Portuguese, with the rest being Spanish speaking.
So, there are some basic issues to be solved with Barry's proposal before
it could even be considered.
Jacqueline

On 21 Jul 2017 17:20, "Ricardo Holmquist" <rihogris at gmail.com> wrote:

Hi,
I do not share the solution given, but further than that, it contains
geographical mistakes, my country is not being included in the list of the
five countries, because this person is supposing it only has to do with the
river, and for us is also the forest, where we have about 25% of our
territory. The State where the Amazon jungle is located is called Amazonas,
and is not being included in the 3 countries with territories called
Amazonas.

Best

Ricardo Holmquist
ISOC Venezuela

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2017-07-21 15:28 GMT-05:00 Evan Leibovitch <evan at telly.org>:

> 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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