The Permanent Secretariat of the Amazon Cooperation Treaty Organization (PS/ACTO) presented its comments on the top-level internet domain “.amazon” during the opening of the comment period to the “Public Interest Commitments – PICs”, of ICANN, specification 13 for the “Amazon” applications of Amazon, on the last day of October 12.
Through the PS/ACTO, the Amazonian countries have repeatedly expressed to ICANN the need to recognize the principles that respect the due consent of the States involved; and, their right to participate effectively in the governance of the top-level Internet domain “.amazon”, for the defense of the public interest; including aspects related to their public policies.
The Amazonian countries based the objection on the understanding that the name, due to its inseparable relationship with the geographical region, peoples, nature and culture of the Amazon, should not be delegated to the company, according to the current ICANN rules in 2012, on an exclusive basis.
These recent comments from the PS/ACTO and the Amazon countries have been published by ICANN, on their website:
https://gtldcomment.icann.org/applicationcomment/viewcomments
https://mm.icann.org/pipermail/spec13-request/2019-October/thread.html
Source: OTCA
