Tag Archives: Amazon.com

Tue 1st December 2015
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Is Amazon.com Getting into The Ticket Biz? Checkout These 3 New Domain Registrations - Amazon.com registered three very interesting domain names yesterday that may indicate a new business for the company. Amazon registered the domain names AmazonConcerts.com AmazonConcertTickets.com and AmazonTheaterTickets.com yesterday through the brand protection company and domain name registrar, MarkMonitor.com. This might indicate that Amazon might be getting into the ticket business to maybe take on Ticketmaster.com and/or StubHub.com Interestingly the domain name AmazonSportsTickets.com is ... read more ...
Tue 6th October 2015
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Amazon.com foreshadows AWS re:Invent news with domain name registrations - What will Amazon reveal at AWS re:Invent this week? Here are some clues. Amazon.com registered 21 domain names yesterday that likely foreshadow product announcements at this week’s AWS re:Invent conference. The company registered 5 internet of things domain names as it prepares to launch a cloud-based service for IOT this week: amazoninternetofthings.com, amazoniotplatform.com, awsinternetofthings.com, awsiotplatform.com, awsiotservice.com. Here are some other domain name registrations that likely ... read more ...
Tue 25th August 2015
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Amazon wins: .Shop and .通販 not confusingly identical after all - Duh. Are the top level domain names .shop and .通販 likely to confuse a reasonable internet user? Certainly not visually. Nor aurally. They also don’t mean the same thing. According to fluent Japanese speakers, 通販 used to be the term for catalog/mail order shopping, and later encompassed online shopping. Yet panelist Robert Nau found them too similar in a string confusion objection filed by Commercial Connect against Amazon.com, applicant for the Japanese string. It was perhaps the most ... read more ...
Thu 23rd April 2015
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More Amazon new TLD reg's and Google's peculiar domain names - I don’t understand what Amazon is doing with these new TLDs, and some curious Google domain registrations. Earlier this week I wrote about Amazon.com’s many generic/descriptive domains registered under new TLDs that it is forwarding to particular pages on its site. Many of these domains were registered when the TLDs launched but just recently had their whois record switched to reveal Amazon. I really don’t understand what Amazon.com is up to here. These domains just popped up in my DomainTools ... read more ...
Mon 20th April 2015
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Is Amazon.com a biggest user of new domain names? - Amazon has registered a bunch of domains under new TLDs, and it’s forwarding them to pages on its website. It’s still unclear what Amazon.com’s strategy is for the many top level domain names it will soon control. But we might get a hint from examining its use of other registry’s top level domain names. Amazon.com has been a big buyer of second level domain names in new TLDs. For example, it picked up many city names under .delivery. I’ve also noticed recently that it registered a bunch ... read more ...
Wed 18th February 2015
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Amazon goes large on city .Delivery domain names - Company registers major city domain names in new .delivery top level domain name. Whether by drone or by truck, Amazon is improving delivery. Just expect more innovation in Denver than Detroit.Amazon.com is obsessed with improving delivery, from its local locker pickup to Sunday delivery to delivery by drone. So perhaps it shouldn’t come as a big surprise that the company registered a bunch of city.delivery domain names when they became available earlier this month. Here are some of the top 30 ... read more ...
Tue 11th November 2014
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Amazon.com wins .Book tip turn domain name battle - Amazon wins 9-way battle for .book domain name. Amazon.com has won an auction for rights to run the .book top level domain name. The company went head-to-head with 8 other applicants for the domain name, including Google, but ultimately agreed to pay the most to run the domain name. Although my money was on Amazon.com to win this domain name, its victory was by no means assured. Yes, Amazon.com got its start with books. But it just lost an auction for .cloud, despite ... read more ...
Mon 10th November 2014
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It’s a Amazon Echo, though Amazon bonds adult on Alexa domain names - Even though it’s called the Echo, Amazon also registered Alexa domain names related to new device. Amazon announced the Amazon Echo, a sort of home personal assistant similar to Ubi, last week. Although it’s called the Echo, owners can name their device whatever they want. And in a video promoting the Echo that has been seen over a million times, the family called it Alexa. (Alexa is also the name Amazon.com’s web analytics/ranking company.) Using this name ... read more ...
 
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What do Amazon and Google domain name waste meant for new TLDs? - Neither of them won .cloud, which begs a big question. .Cloud is a valuable top level domain name. I’m basing that on the seven applications it received, and that Amazon.com, Google and Symantec all applied for the domain name. So which one of these heavyweights won the rights to .cloud? This one: Wait – what? That cartoonish logo doesn’t match any of the heavyweights that applied for .cloud. Aruba S.p.A., an Italian webhosting company, won the battle for ... read more ...
Tue 28th October 2014
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Amazon.com heading competence tip off skeleton for new tip turn domain names - Trademark application covers registry services related to selling domain names to the public. What does Amazon.com plan to do with top level domain names it is the registry for? Does it still plan to earmark them for just Amazon.com’s use? Is it just for defensive purposes? Or will it promote them to consumers? We don’t know much, but a recent trademark application provides some possible hints. Earlier this month, Amazon filed an intent-to-use trademark application ... read more ...
Wed 13th August 2014
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Amazon launches Square competitor, snaps adult 100 domain names - Company registered 100 related domain names ahead of latest product launch. Today Amazon.com launched Amazon Local Register, a mobile credit card merchant solution similar to Square. Yesterday the company registered close to 100 new domain names for the new service, by my count. Of the companies I track, Amazon does the most defensive domain name registrations when it releases new products. The company has over 35,000 registered domain names. These domains will ... read more ...
Sat 26th July 2014
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Roundup: this week in a Domain Name Business - It was another exciting week in the domain name industry. Here’s a look back. Domain Registry of America may finally get cut off from ICANN. The notorious company that sends misleading domain renewal notices to domain owners has been suspended by ICANN and a full termination may be coming. Sedo is planning a big new TLD booth at September’s DMEXCO conference in Germany. Interested new TLD companies are invited to reach out to the company about participating. Amazon ... read more ...
Thu 19th June 2014
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Amazon fires adult defensive domain registrations for Fire Phone - Amazon registers 200 or more domain names related to new phone. Amazon.com unveiled its Amazon Fire Phone yesterday. At the same time, it went on a defensive registration binge for names related to the new product. I count 200 domain name registrations yesterday related to the Fire Phone. This will give you an idea of the breadth of Amazon.com’s defensive registration efforts: 4gFirePhone.com, amazon-firephone.com, amazonfirephonecover.com, amazonfirephoneunlocked.com, ... read more ...
Mon 14th April 2014
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CTIA kills Amazon.com’s bid for .mobile domain name - International Chamber of Commerce decision eliminates Amazon.com’s plans to run the .mobile top level domain name. CTIA, a trade group representing mobile phone carriers, has successfully objected to Amazon.com’s application to run the .mobile top level domain name domain name. CTIA filed Community Objections against applications filed by Amazon.com and Dish DBS to run .mobile. Both applicants originally planned to operated .mobile as a “Closed Generic”, ... read more ...
Thu 20th March 2014
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Amazon.com registers .domains domain names for any of the due TLDs - Amazon.com grabs .domains domains corresponding to its new top level domain applications. Amazon.com has registered corresponding .domains domain names for each of the 65 Latin script top level domain names it has applied for. All of the registrations follow the format dotTLD.domains, e.g. dotAmazon.domains, dotCloud.domains, and dotDeal.domains. This is an interesting move that adds to the complicated question of what Amazon.com plans to do with its domain names. ... read more ...
Tue 11th February 2014
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Video Game attention fails to kick Amazon.com’s .Game - No cheat codes available for community objection. The Entertainment Software Association, a U.S. industry group for the video game industry, has failed to quash Amazon.com’s application to run the .game top level domain name. ESA filed a community objection against Amazon’s application. There are six applicants for .game, but ESA only went after Amazon.com’s application because it proposes operating the domain as a “closed” registry. This means other companies ... read more ...
Mon 27th January 2014
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Amazon gets a win in .Amazon quarrel & IO found to have dispute of seductiveness in case - Panelist finds Independent Objector Alain Pellet has a conflict of interest and sides with Amazon.com in domain name dispute. Amazon.com has successfully defended community objections brought against its applications for .amazon and the Chinese and Japanese equivalent top level domain names. At the same time, it has also successfully questioned the Independent Objector’s conflict of interest in filing the cases in the first place. The internet retailing giant argued ... read more ...
Tue 10th December 2013
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Hardheaded governments vs. Amazon.com - Amazon details some of the concessions it was willing to make to governments in the Amazon region. One of the more peculiar new top level domain name battles is the one between Amazon.com and and governments of the Amazon area, including Brazil and Peru. At the request of these countries, the Governmental Advisory Committee has effectively killed Amazon.com’s bid for .amazon and two internationalized equivalents in Japanese and Chinese. It’s sometimes difficult ... read more ...
Mon 9th December 2013
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.Music, .Song, and .Tunes new tip turn domain name objections opposite Amazon.com dismissed - Amazon.com prevails in dispute over three music related top level domain names. An International Chamber of Commerce panelist has ruled against the American Association of Independent Music’s (A2IM) community objections to Amazon.com’s bids to run the .music, .song, and .tunes domain names. A2IM is backing a rival bid for .music by Constantinos Roussos. A2IM filed objections against seven rival applications for .music. Each case will certainly be different. For ... read more ...
Thu 5th December 2013
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“Cloud” is not a community, new TLD panelist rules - Group’s definition of “cloud community” is too broad. Cloud Industry Forum Limited has lost its community objections against three applications for the .cloud top level domain name. The objections were filed against the three applicants who planned to keep their .cloud registries closed to registrations: Google, Amazon.com, and Symantec. Panelist Stephen L. Drymer ruled that the community Cloud Industry Forum claimed in the objection is not “clearly delineated.” ... read more ...
Mon 14th October 2013
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After appropriation TenMarks, Amazon.com’s domain name group went to work - Company registers over 75 domain names after making acquisition. Whenever Amazon.com announces a new product or acquires a company, it goes a bit nuts defensively registering related domain names. Last week Amazon acquired online match education company TenMarks, and its domain name team went to work. I count at least 75 defensive registrations, and I’m sure there are many more. ccTLDs - many startups don’t buy their domain names across multiple country codes. ... read more ...
Mon 9th September 2013
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Amazon.com appeals stupid IDN fibre difficulty objection - Amazon asks ICANN to ignore bad string confusion objection decision. Amazon.com has appealed to ICANN’s board to overrule a decision in a string confusion objection that placed its new TLD application for .通販 in a contention set with .shop. Panelist Robert Nau ruled that .通販, which loosely translates to “online shopping”, would cause confusion amongst internet users when compared to .shop. It was truly an awful decision, and I can understand Amazon’s ... read more ...
Thu 22nd August 2013
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String Confusions Gone Wild: Amazon IDN is found identical to opposite word in English - “Online Shopping” in Japanese is too similar to .shop in English, panelist rules. Some new top level domain name string confusions objection decisions have been baffling. A difference in opinion on .cam vs. .com. Plurals vs. Singulars. But now string confusions have officially gone off the deep end. A panelist has found that Amazon.com’s application for .通販, which is Japanese for “Online Shopping”, is too similar to .shop. Commercial Connect, which ... read more ...
Tue 13th August 2013
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.Secure applicant files heading focus for SAFETLD - Artemis files application for SAFETLD mark for its .secure top level domain. Artemis Internet, part of NCC Group plc, has filed a trademark application with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for “SAFETLD”, most likely tied to its .secure TLD bid. The company is one of two applicants for the .secure top level domain. It faces Amazon.com in the contention set. The trademark application (pdf) identifies the services as: Business services, namely, formulation ... read more ...
Fri 2nd August 2013
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If .amazon is killed, will Amazon bail on a new TLD program? - Amazon may be questioning its role in the first round of new top level domain applications. With the Governmental Advisory Committee (GAC) recommending that ICANN block Amazon.com’s application for the .amazon top level domain, it poses an interesting question: should Amazon.com bail out on the entire new TLD program? Assuming ICANN’s board agrees with the GAC, I suspect the question will at least be discussed at Amazon. The answer has a lot to do with what Amazon ... read more ...