It is believed that Amazon paid between $5m and $10m to have exclusive rights to the new gTLD with interested parties including Symantec and Google. This
comes after it was recently announced that the online retail giant had acquisitioned the rights for .buy with the fee for this believed to be around $4.6m.
Amazon also competed for the .bid TLD however was pipped to the post by Italian company Aruba
The new gTLD program means that multiple parties can declare interest in certain TLDs with the process being administered by the Internet Coproratio…