Amazon buys ‘.buy for 3.6 million euros

Amazon has an auction of top-level-domain names for 4.6 million dollars, converted to € 3.6 million, filed for top-level-domain”.buy. Also ‘.tech’ and ‘.vip have been for several millions of euro’s will be auctioned.

Among other things Google had offered.buy, but the company was outbid by Amazon, reports DomainnameWire. ICANN, the organization that the distribution of domain names and ip-addresses, coordinates, held an auction because there is a lot of interest was for the top-level-domain names.

Also the domain names”.tech’ and ‘.vip’ were auctioned. ‘.Tech spent 6.7 million dollars, converted to $ 5.2 million, and was sold to a registrar of Dot Tech, with Google again outbid. Dot Techs competitor, Top Level Domain Holdings bought.vip’ for $ 3 million, converted to 2,3 million euro. Last year it began the roll-out of custom-tlds-anyone can now 200,000 dollars to his own extension register.

There is a lot of criticism has been on the custom tld program. According to the critics, can custom tld’s create confusion among users. Also, there would be security risks, because some domain names that are used internally then suddenly registered that could be. Icann has previously admitted that the consequences of the new domain names not to predict.

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