ICANN on Monday extended the deadline to April for Amazon basin nations to reach a deal with the tech giant Amazon Inc in their seven-year battle over the .amazon domain name. Reuters reports: “[ICANN] meeting this week in Kobe, Japan, decided to put off a decision that was expected to favor use of the domain by the world’s largest online retailer. Amazon basin countries Brazil, Bolivia, Peru, Ecuador, Colombia, Venezuela, Guyana and Suriname have fought the domain request since it was made in 2012, arguing that the name refers to their geographic region and thus belongs to them.”

— Amazon nations remain “firmly opposed” to Amazon Inc gaining exclusive control of the domain name, says Brazil’s foreign ministry. He adds: “Brazil and its seven Amazon partners will continue to negotiate in good faith with Amazon.com to try to reach a ‘mutually acceptable solution’ to the domain dispute.”

— Supporting .Amazon domain strengthens global internet cooperation, says Christian Dawson of i2Coalition: “Though we should all be sympathetic to the position of the governments of Brazil and Peru, we should also be impressed with the extensive efforts that Amazon has undertaken in order to assuage as many of those concerns as possible. They have made formal signed commitments to not use the TLDs in a confusing manner. They have promised to support future gTLD applications to represent the region using the geographic terms of the regions, including .AMAZONIA, .AMAZONICA or .AMAZONAS. They also offered to reserve for the relevant governments certain domain names that could cause confusion or touch on national sensitivities.