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02-28-03, 05:31 PM
By NICK WINGFIELD
Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Amazon.com Inc. has quietly received the go-ahead to begin selling Internet addresses to users who want a piece of cyberspace real-estate.
The Seattle-based Internet retailer in early December was accredited as a so-called "domain name registrar," making Amazon one of about 160 companies and organizations that are permitted to register Internet addresses, or domain names, ending in familiar suffixes like ".com," ".net" and ".org." Amazon received accreditation from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann (www.icann.org), the nonprofit group that oversees the administration of Internet addresses.
The development means that Amazon now has permission to register Internet addresses for any individual or business that wants a distinctly-named Web site or e-mail address. Amazon is not currently operating an Internet registrar yet, according to a spokeswoman for Icann, adding that it typically takes newly-accredited registrars several months to begin registering Internet domain names. Amazon was approved to register domain names ending in ".com," ".net," ".org," ".info" and ".biz," according to the Icann spokeswoman.
An Amazon spokesman declined to confirm that the company received approval to register domain names.
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Staff Reporter of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
Amazon.com Inc. has quietly received the go-ahead to begin selling Internet addresses to users who want a piece of cyberspace real-estate.
The Seattle-based Internet retailer in early December was accredited as a so-called "domain name registrar," making Amazon one of about 160 companies and organizations that are permitted to register Internet addresses, or domain names, ending in familiar suffixes like ".com," ".net" and ".org." Amazon received accreditation from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, or Icann (www.icann.org), the nonprofit group that oversees the administration of Internet addresses.
The development means that Amazon now has permission to register Internet addresses for any individual or business that wants a distinctly-named Web site or e-mail address. Amazon is not currently operating an Internet registrar yet, according to a spokeswoman for Icann, adding that it typically takes newly-accredited registrars several months to begin registering Internet domain names. Amazon was approved to register domain names ending in ".com," ".net," ".org," ".info" and ".biz," according to the Icann spokeswoman.
An Amazon spokesman declined to confirm that the company received approval to register domain names.
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