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Publishers oppose Amazon's bid to gain Web names: WSJ Mar 11th 2013, 00:56 Tweet Share this Email Print Related News Barnes & Noble chairman plans offer for bookstore business Mon, Feb 25 2013 Analysis & Opinion Maria Popova's blogonomics, part 2 Inkling takes aim at Amazon Related Topics Investing and Taxes Simplified » Tech » A worker packs boxes at Amazon's logistics centre in Graben near Augsburg December 17, 2012. Credit: Reuters/Michael Dalder NEW YORK | Sun Mar 10, 2013 8:56pm EDT NEW YORK (Reuters) - Two publishing industry groups, the Authors Guild and the Association of American Publishers, are opposing Amazon.com Inc's request to own new domain names, The Wall Street Journal reported. The organizations argue that allowing Amazon to have such domain addresses that end in suffixes such as ".book," ".author" and ".read" would be a threat to competition, the paper said. Barnes & Noble Inc has also opposed Amazon's request, the paper said. An Amazon spokesman declined to comment on the objections, the paper said. Last year the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers began a process to allow organizations to register for new Web address suffixes, other than ".com" and ".edu." The ambitious plan to liberalize Internet addresses attracted 1,930 applications, almost half of them from north America, with Amazon and Google Inc applying for dozens of domains including .cloud, .buy and .book. (Reporting By Jessica Toonkel; Editing by Stephen Coates) Investing and Taxes Simplified Related Quotes and News Company Price Related News Tweet this Link this Share this Digg this Email Reprints We welcome comments that advance the story through relevant opinion, anecdotes, links and data. If you see a comment that you believe is irrelevant or inappropriate, you can flag it to our editors by using the report abuse links. Views expressed in the comments do not represent those of Reuters. For more information on our comment policy, see http://blogs.reuters.com/fulldisclosure/2010/09/27/toward-a-more-thoughtful-conversation-on-stories/ Comments (0) Be the first to comment on reuters.com. Add yours using the box above.

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