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Dot-Amazon spat latest: Brazil tells ICANN to go fsck itself, only 'govts control the internet'

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and before Brazil decided to squat on the [domain] name, the word "Amazon" had already been in use for literally THOUSANDS of years.

So.. following Brazil's line of reasoning, the .amazon TLD should be given to Greece.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amazons

In Greek mythology, the Amazons (Greek: Ἀμαζόνες, Amazónes, singular Ἀμαζών, Amazōn) were a tribe of women warriors. Apollonius Rhodius, at Argonautica, mentions that Amazons were the daughters of Ares and Harmonia (a nymph of the Akmonian Wood). They were brutal and aggressive, and their main concern in life was war.

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