In the case of Patagonia, that is a region and not a political entity name. It, like Amazon, is also the name of a multinational commercial entity. It will be significant, at least to me, to see the history of objections launched against these domain names at the second level.
In ICANN's comments system, there's a huge pile of comments on .PATAGONIA. Many are in Spanish, which suggests they are from people who live in the area. There are only two on .AMAZON. I agree that North Americans have no particular standing to complain about either.
In the case of .nyc we have a situation in which the city government has made a clear choice according to ICANN guidelines.
Agreed. Complaints go to the NY city council, not ICANN.
And as for .health, I personally see it as no different from any other non-brand dictionary word being applied for as a TLD. ...
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