‘.Amazon’ gives e-commerce giant its own Internet domain

FILE PHOTO: An aerial view of the Amazon river, before the signing of a document by Colombia's President Juan Manuel Santos that will allow for the conservation of the Tarapoto wetland complex in Amazonas, Colombia January 18, 2018. REUTERS/Jaime Saldarriaga/File Photo

SAN FRANCISCO: E-commerce giant Amazon was on its way to running its own online neighbourhood on May 20 after the Internet’s address keeper granted the “.amazon” domain to the company. 

After waiting in vain for years for the US online retail colossus and an alliance of South American countries to resolve their battle over the right to web addresses ending with “.amazon”, the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) this month sided with the Seattle-based company.