A ‘.Pin’ By Any Other Name: Amazon and Pinterest Fight For Favorite Three-Letter Doma

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Trouble is afoot in the land of Internet domains . Specifically, in the land of "generic top-level- domains "—or as they are known by non-geeks, the letters that come after the dot. Retail giant Amazon has launched a bid to buy 76 new domains , including “.like” “.shop” “.author.” and the particularly contentious, “.pin.” These domains will not be made available to the wider public but will be ...

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I wonder if anyone applied for a gTLD with the intentions on the shortest URL redirect, .bit perhaps?