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Litigation

Apr. 6, 2013

Companies, squatters clash over new Web domains

Amazon wants to own the top-level domain name dot-app, but so does Google. And 11 others. And they may be on the brink of a bidding war, or at least a long arbitration process behind closed doors.

By Ryne Hodkowski

Daily Journal Staff Writer

Amazon wants to own the top-level domain name dot-app, but so does Google. And 11 others. And they may be on the brink of a bidding war, or at least a long arbitration process behind closed doors. In the coming months, hundreds of new top-level domains will hit the Web as companies buy up letters that follow the dot in Internet addresses in hopes that dot-bar or dot-map will become as popular as familiar endings like dot...

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