Bot it won’t be easy to register them.
Amazon.com is making .bot domain names available to the public on Tuesday starting at 6 a.m.
The company has been testing different business models for its new top level domain names and this domain is no exception. Registration of the domain names will be severely restricted.
The company says .bot “is a space specifically for developers and their end customers to find and discover bots”. At launch, Domain names will only be available to people who have published a chatbot through Amazon Lex, Microsoft Bot Framework or Dialogflow. More development platforms will be added in the future.
Registrants will need verify their ownership of a bot on these platforms in order to register the domains. For example, Amazon Lex users will need to create an AWS “cross account role” and provide additional information when registering.
Registrants will begin the process at get.bot, but the domains will be registered through domain registrars.
I’m interested to see if developers actually latch-on to .bot like Amazon is predicting. But then, even if it doesn’t catch-on, I’m sure Amazon will find another internal use for them down the road.
I need one of these domains for an airport security drone we’re developing called Crotch.bot
Hey Steve, let me know if you need help in getting your domain registered. I can also help you in creating your bot.
Good to know that large companies make dumb mistakes too, just like small ones. The is class bridge to nowhere. New tlds suck.
I wonder, because in their AWS Ad it states “The Online Space for Bots”.
Could dot bot possible mean greater privileges on existing AWS accounts on the actual -running the bot- ? That would be amazing because that could mean a block-chained env by .tld within that namespace -one could trade bypassing DNS and still using a ngtld, possibly ?!
Thanks for sharing this article.
Hey! I have problems to validate my bot ownership to get access. Is it possible that you can help me to validate my bot ownership? I would really appreciate it.
Register your bot here Dialogflow.com 🙂 You just need to create its name and then use the client token # to keep going with the .Bot domain registration…