This is really going to help a lot of sites protect themselves - right now we just have the evil bit, but being able to block addresses with a ptr in .bot should eliminate drive-by defacement altogether.

>All domains in the .BOT registry will remain the property of Amazon.

according to http://icannwiki.com/.bot

It would be awesome if Amazon could force registrants to contractually agree to follow Asimov's 3 Laws of Robotics.

Intrestingly enoungh nic.bot itself is registered not to Amazon proper but to Neustar Inc.

How do I get one? What's the price on the tin?

Surprisingly few "clever" possibilities: http://rhymezone.com/r/rhyme.cgi?Word=*bot&typeofrhyme=perfe...

Seems Amazon got that TLD a while back: http://techcrunch.com/2012/06/13/how-tech-giants-are-playing...

Why the long wait?

I, for one, welcome our new larvæ/homosexual/jumping/boat/wineskin/bagpipe/blunt/impolite/bone/offering/bidding/occuring/stick/container/tail/phallic/fine/help/repair/compensation/improvement/toad/strike overlords.

(Okay, 'bot' will probably be used exclusively to mean robot, but it has many other meanings: https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/bot)

A TLD for all your infected Windows machines \o/

Looking forward to medi.bot from Look Around You.

I call dibs on sex.bot

GitHub better hurry up and get hu.bot

Time from registration opening to ro.bot being taken: Mere milliseconds.

From wordsapi:

robot 4.14

abbot 3.1

bot 3

talbot 2.89

cabot 2.84

turbot 2.27

sabot 2.08

tldr

dig <anything>.bot resolves to 127.0.53.53 meaning https://www.icann.org/namecollision

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Chorus of whinging about DNSSec policies in following document in 3, 2, 1...

http://nic.bot/pdf/BOT-DPSStatement.pdf