{"id":6115,"date":"2014-11-14T23:39:35","date_gmt":"2014-11-15T06:39:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=6115"},"modified":"2014-11-18T23:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T06:42:57","slug":"amazon-books-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2014\/11\/14\/amazon-books-book\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Books .book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1371793\/amazon-wins-right-to-sell-book-domain-names\" target=\"_blank\"><em>from Sky News<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<h1 class=\"story__headline story__headline--normal\">Amazon Wins Right To Sell .Book Domain Names<\/h1>\n<p class=\"story__standfirst\"><em>The online retailer pays up to $10m at a private auction for the right to control and sell domains ending in .book.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image__item  js-responsive\" src=\"http:\/\/media.skynews.com\/media\/images\/generated\/2012\/9\/6\/191680\/default\/v1\/rtr2u1nh-1-762x428.jpg\" alt=\"An Amazon distribution centre in Scotland\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" data-template=\"http:\/\/media.skynews.com\/media\/images\/generated\/2012\/9\/6\/191680\/default\/v1\/rtr2u1nh-1-{width}x{height}.jpg\" \/><em>One of the online retailer&#8217;s massive fulfilment centres<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Amazon has won the right to sell domain names ending in .book after beating off competition from eight other companies including Google.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>It is understood to have paid up to $10m (\u00a36.3m) at a private auction, just days after shelling out $4.6m (\u00a32.9m) for .buy &#8211; but it was beaten to the rights to .cloud by Italian company Aruba.<\/p>\n<p>Other top-level domains settled in recent days include .dog, .live, .online, .tennis and .chat.<\/p>\n<p>The two remaining domain name extensions due to be auctioned off by 19 November are .dot and .apartments.<\/p>\n<p>The auctions are a result of a decision by the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (Icann) &#8211; which governs domain names.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/1371793\/amazon-wins-right-to-sell-book-domain-names\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at Sky News<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from Sky News Amazon Wins Right To Sell .Book Domain Names The online retailer pays up to $10m at a private auction for the right to control and sell domains ending in .book. One of the online retailer&#8217;s massive fulfilment centres Amazon has won the right to sell domain names ending in .book after beating [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-literary-news","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}