Allowing Amazon to register .mobile as a closed generic top-level...
Allowing Amazon to register .mobile as a closed generic top-level domain (gTLD) would create customer confusion and allow “anti-competitive misuse of the gTLD, including deceptive marketing practices,” CTIA said in an objection (http://bit.ly/ZVX33Q) filed with the Internet Corporation for Assigned…
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Names and Numbers (ICANN). “The Mobile Wireless Community lives and breathes by virtue of its presence online,” and Amazon’s application for the gTLD makes clear that “it will be acting solely in its own interests and not in the interests of the Mobile Wireless Community” by retaining all .mobile domains for its own use if ICANN delegates .mobile to Amazon, CTIA said. Allowing that to happen would “impact hundreds (if not thousands) of companies who are currently engaged in providing mobile products and services by limiting their ability to engage with consumers,” the objection continued. Delegating the closed .mobile to Amazon would be an “unwarranted expansion of exclusionary rights” and would create a situation where Amazon “will automatically put competitors at a disadvantage by capturing direct navigation and online search requests,” CTIA said.