Amazon’s Luxembourg subsidiary has won the auction for the .book domain. The company prevailed over nine competitors, including Google and Bowker, the latter reportedly the last to drop out, according to the Register. Terms of the auction were not disclosed but it is understood to have been “between $5 million and $10 million.” Though not reported elsewhere, according to the ICANN database, Amazon also appears to be the only contender for the .author domain as well, listed as “in contracting” (which has its own peculiar meaning for ICANN). When Amazon first applied for the .book domain in early 2013, the company said it would run it […]
