And this is something that several people in the so-called "technical 
community" find beyond their understanding -- after all, ICANN is a 
technical organization in charge only of names, numbers and protocols :)

--c.a.

On 03/11/2013 12:46 PM, William Drake wrote:
> Debate is spreading beyond the ICANNosphere and getting interesting…
>
> http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324096404578352532206088970.html#printMode
>
> /Large and small companies are vying for control of an array of new
> Internet domain names, but Amazon.com Inc.'s AMZN -0.95% plans are
> coming under particular scrutiny. Two publishing industry groups, the
> Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are objecting
> to the online retailer's request for ownership of new top-level domain
> names that are partof a long-awaited expansion of the Web's addressing
> scheme. They argue that giving Amazon control over such addresses—which
> include ".book," ".author" and ".read"—would be a threat to competition
> and shouldn't be allowed./