Members of Congress are holding hostage a planned transfer of Internet domain oversight as it pressures the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) to reverse its previous decision denying Amazon.com Inc. permission to use the .amazon top-level domain.
ICANN, the organization that oversees Internet domains, rejected the online retailer’s application last year because Brazil, Peru and other countries in South America insisted that the name should be preserved for “the Amazonian biome and its local populations.”
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