More organizations, including the Authors Guild and Barnes & Noble, have filed objections to Amazon's request for future domain names such as .book, .author, .read, .app and more, the Wall Street Journal reported. The Association of American Publishers has also objected.
Scott Turow, president of the Authors Guild, wrote to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers: "Placing such generic domains in private hands is plainly anticompetitive. The potential for abuse seems limitless."
B&N said that Amazon could use the new domain names "to stifle competition in the bookselling and publishing industries, which are critical to the future of copyrighted expression in the U.S."