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Tech giant Amazon passes initial evaluation for three of its applications

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Groups say Amazon ownership of '.book', .'read' and '.author' would distort competition

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The Vatican will be the first to have its own generic Top-Level Domain name

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The United Nations should not be given control of the Internet, European MPs have warned

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Amazon domain disputed by South American governments... for obvious reasons

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The net address regulator will receive feedback from government representatives

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ICANN says it will rework its policy around collecting and providing access to data on domain registrants

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FRANCE: Louis Pouzin invented a precursor to the Internet's TCP/IP's protoool, and now he wants to break ICANN's monopoly on top level domains

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The US will oppose any change to international regulations that could transfer control of the Internet

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Internet regulator ICANN has a new boss as gTLDs draw nearer

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