Tag Archives: Amazon.com

Fri 19th July 2013
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USPS loses to Amazon.com on .Mail tip turn domain objection - U.S. mail service tried to argue .mail infringed on its rights for “U.S. Mail”. The United States Postal Services’ Legal Rights Objection to Amazon.com’s bid to run the .mail top level domain name has been denied by a World Intellectual Property Organization panelist. The USPS’ objection to all seven applications for .mail was one of the most head-scratching of all objections. The objection was based on trademarks that include the word mail, primarily “U.S. ... read more ...
Fri 12th July 2013
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Amazon picked adult domain names for new Jet City Comics impress in March - Company hand registered one domain and acquired the other. Amazon.com’s publishing division acquired the domains for its new Jet City Comics imprint in March. Symposium is one of the first releases under the imprint.Amazon.com announced its new Jet City Comics imprint today. The imprint features works by Hugh Howey, George R.R. Martin (Game of Thrones), Neal Stephenson, and Christian Cameron. Amazon.com hand registered the JetCityComic.com domain name in March. ... read more ...
Mon 25th March 2013
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Pinterest objects to Amazon’s skeleton for .Pin domain name - Pinterest sticks a pin in Amazon’s .pin top level domain application. Pinterest has filed a legal rights objection against Amazon.com over its application to run the .pin top level domain. As with Amazon’s other top level domain applications, it plans to operate .pin as a closed registry and will not offer second level domain names to consumers and businesses. While you can understand what Amazon would do with other domain names it has applied for, such as .book ... read more ...
Mon 1st October 2012
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Amazon’s Quidsi lauches Vine.com for healthy products - Quidsi’s latest generic domain store: Vine.com. I’ve scooped a number of Quidsi store openings based on generic domains they’ve bought — from Afterschool.com to Casa.com. But I missed this one: Quidsi just launched Vine.com, a store with “natural products for green living”. George Kirikos points out that the company appears to have acquired the domain name through Mark Monitor over the past few weeks. It was previously owned by a company called Vine Technology. It’s ... read more ...
Thu 13th September 2012
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Amazon’s Quidsi to launch Afterschool.com charity apparatus for after propagandize activities. - Latest niche store to offer equipment for afterschool activities. In June I scooped that Amazon.com subsidiary Quidsi was working on a new site call Afterschool.com. This is the second Quidsi site I’ve scooped thanks to domain registrations. Afterschool.com now resolves to a coming soon launch page, Quidsi started social media outreach yesterday, and it recently started sending notices to merchandising partners. So what will the store be about? Equipment for kids ... read more ...
Mon 9th July 2012
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My initial Amazon.com squeeze with sales tax - Amazon.com starts charging sales tax in Texas. That won’t hope local retailers much. Last week I made a purchase on Amazon.com that had a new line item: sales tax. A week ago Sunday Amazon.com started collecting sales tax in Texas. Local retailers are rejoicing. To be fair to the retailers, it’s only right that Amazon collect sales tax on purchases made by Texas residents. But if they’re hoping that this will suddenly send shoppers back to their shops, they’ll ... read more ...
Fri 6th July 2012
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NCC skeleton to deposit $9.4 million in .secure (if it can get a domain) - Company hopeful it can prevail over Amazon.com. The CEO of United Kingdom security company NCC Group (NCC.LN) told Dow Jones Newswires that it plans to invest 6 million pounds ($9.4 million) in the top level domain name .secure, with over half of that in the next twelve months. CEO Rob Cotton also told Dow Jones Newswires that he thinks his company will prevail in getting the domain name despite it being contested by Amazon.com. Like all of Amazon.com’s domains, ... read more ...
Tue 19th June 2012
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Amazon.com’s Quidsi acquires Afterschool.com - A new Quidsi store in the works? Amazon.com’s Quidsi, the company behind stores with great domains such as Diapers.com, Soap.com (cleaning and personal care), YoYo.com (toy), and Wag.com (pet stuff), has purchased the domain name Afterschool.com. The domain name was acquired from WebQuest Inc. with the help of brand protection company Mark Monitor. The domain transferred to Mark Monitor on June 10, and the whois was updated to show Quidsi yesterday. Quidsi’s domain ... read more ...
Thu 14th June 2012
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Amazon.com won’t offer domain names to a public - Amazon.com intends to only offer domain registrations to itself. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names. But don’t expect to be able to register any second level domains underneath them. I just reviewed eight of the company’s applications, and each one has similar language explaining who can register a second level domain under them: only Amazon.com and its subsidiaries. …Amazon and its subsidiaries will be the only eligible registrants… Now ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Amazon.com relates for 76 tip turn domain names including .cloud, .hot, .wow, .amazon - Amazon.com goes big with new TLDs. Amazon.com has applied for 76 top level domain names, making it one of the largest internet brands to participate in ICANN’s historic expansion of the top level domain namespace. Names range from brands such as .amazon to products to internationalized domain names. Here’s the full list: AMAZON APP AUDIBLE AUTHOR AWS BOOK BOT BOX BUY CALL CIRCLE CLOUD COUPON DEAL DEV DRIVE FAST FIRE FREE GAME GOT GROUP HOT IMDB JOT JOY KIDS KINDLE LIKE MAIL MAP MOBILE MOI MOVIE MUSIC NEWS NOW PAY PIN PLAY PRIME READ ROOM SAFE SAVE SEARCH SECURE SHOP SHOW SILK SMILE SONG SPOT STORE TALK TUNES TUSHU VIDEO WANGGOU WOW YAMAXUN YOU YUN ZAPPOS ZERO IDNs: (a-label, ... read more ...
 
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Amazon, Google, and Symantec to quarrel for .cloud domain name - Seven applicants to compete for .cloud top level domain include some really big internet giants. Seven applicants filed requests with ICANN for the .cloud top level domain name — and three of them are heavyweight contenders. Amazon.com, Google, and Symantec Corporation are all in the running for the domain name. They’ll be competing against some smaller competitors including Aruba.it, CloudNames.com, Donuts.co, and Top Level Domain Holdings. If the seven can’t ... read more ...
Wed 28th September 2011
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Amazon’s New Products and Its Domain Name Scorecard - Company gets key domains but misses some others. Amazon.com released a slew of new products today: a new basic Kindle, the Kindle Touch, Kindle Touch 3G, Kindle Fire, and Amazon Silk. The company is known for aggressively registering variations and typos of its brand names. Let’s see how they did for this product launch: Kindle Fire – as I wrote about yesterday, Amazon bought this domain name. However, it appears someone else may have registered the typo wwwKindleFire.com. Kindle ... read more ...
Fri 15th July 2011
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Amazon May Be Working on MyHabit.com Apps - Company registers domain names for apps related to its new MyHabit.com store. Amazon.com’s new MyHabit store seems to be doing well since its launch a couple months ago based on how quickly some of its limited-time sales sell out. Now the company appears to be working on MyHabit apps for your iPhone and perhaps Android devices: The company just registered MyHabitApp.com, MyHabitforiPhone.com, and MyHabitMobileApp.com according to whois records. The company has ... read more ...
Tue 12th July 2011
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Amazon.com Buys CloudPlayer.com Domain Name - Company gets domain name for its new music service. When Amazon.com announced its music-anywhere service and corresponding Cloud Player a few months ago, it was missing a key ingredient — the domain name CloudPlayer.com. It has belatedly fixed that problem. On July 11 the whois record for CloudPlayer.com transferred to Amazon. It hasn’t yet started forwarding the domain name to its product page, however. Cloud Player is the application to access your Amazon ... read more ...
Wed 6th July 2011
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Company Behind Diapers.com and Soap.com Launches Wag.com - Another category-generic domain name site from Quidsi. Amazon.com-owned Quidsi, which has a habit of launching category stores on category specific generic domain names, has launched a pet store at Wag.com. Over the past few days I’ve been trying to figure out what Amazon was up to as it registered dozens of domain names related to pets that included “Wag” in the name. My guess was a new Amazon-branded product line, but I didn’t think to check the whois record ... read more ...
Thu 30th June 2011
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It’s Time for a National Discussion on Sales Tax - Amazon cans its California affiliates. California loses, affiliates lose. It’s time for a bigger discussion. Yesterday a couple California readers forwarded a message from Amazon.com saying that, should their governor sign in to law a new so-called “affiliate tax”, their participation in the Amazon Associated program would be terminated. Hours later they received a message saying the bill was signed and they’ve been kicked out of the program. I’ve written ... read more ...
 
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Amazon: Kindle Beats Nook - Amazon registers domain name flouting recent Consumer Reports rankings. Earlier this month Consumer Reports released updated eBook reader ratings, declaring “Nook beats Kindle“. That certainly didn’t go well with Jeff Bezos. So the company just registered the domain name KindleBeatsNook.com. When it comes to domain names, perhaps Consumer Reports should give Amazon a higher rating than Barnes Noble. After all, no one (yet) has registered NookBeatsKindle.com. ... read more ...
Tue 28th September 2010
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Amazon.com Gets Patent for Selling and Leasing Domain Names - Amazon granted patent for domain name marketplace. Amazon.com subsidiary Amazon Technologies, Inc. was today granted U.S. patent number 7,805,379 for “Method and system for leasing or purchasing domain names”. This patent, which was applied for in December 2007, seems to conflict with a number of existing domain name marketplace and domain monetization technologies that were commercially available at the time the patent application was filed. One conflict in particular ... read more ...
Fri 7th August 2009
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Zappos Paid $4.9 Millon for Clothes.com Domain Name - Zappos ponied up serious money for Clothes.com domain name last year. Now it’s Amazon.com’s toy. Online shoe retailer Zappos paid $4.9 million to acquire the domain name Clothes.com from IdeaLab last year, SEC records show: In May 2008, we acquired the Clothes.com internet domain name from Idealab. The domain name was recognized as a purchased intangible asset with a useful life of 20 years. The entire purchase price of $4.9 million was assigned to the price ... read more ...
Fri 26th June 2009
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Amazon.com Officially Dumps North Carolina Affiliates - Company cancels affiliate accounts due to sales tax law. Amazon.com (NASDAQ: AMZN) has officially dumped its North Caroline affiliates (aka “Associates”), as it threatened to do a couple weeks ago. North Carolina’s legislature has created a lose-lose-lose situation by preparing to pass a law requiring online companies to collect sales tax if they have affiliate marketers in the state. Since major ecommerce companies such as Amazon will drop affiliates in ... read more ...
Wed 8th April 2009
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Amazon.com Mistypes the Own Domain Name - Endless.com has two s’s. This morning I received an e-mail from Amazon.com with the following subject line: Free Overnight Shipping on crocs from Endles.com Endles? What are those? They meant to type Endless.com, which is the web site for Amazon’s shoe store. But somehow the subject line made it through review with a typo. Hopefully no more than a few million people received the email. If one of Amazon’s own employees made this mistake, imagine how many ... read more ...
Mon 6th April 2009
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Amazon Disses Paid Search Affiliates - Amazon to forbid affiliates linking from paid search ads. In an email to Amazon Associates today, the company announced it will no longer allow affiliates to send traffic directly to its site from pay-per-click ads on Google, Yahoo, and MSN. Affiliates may still bid on search engines to send traffic to their own web sites, which in turn link to Amazon.com through its affiliate program. I used to be active at affiliate arbitrage. In a nutshell, that means buying ... read more ...
Thu 5th February 2009
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Toys.com, Birthdays.com, Hobbies.com Sold during Auction - Millions of dollars in domains sold at auction. The biggest domain name auction of the year took place yesterday, but you probably haven’t heard about it. And Oversee.net, parent company of Moniker, was a bidder, not a seller. Yesterday at 10 am substantial assets from The Parent Company were scheduled to be auctioned off at the law offices of Pachulski Stang Ziehl Jones LLP. The Parent Company owns a number of online retailers including eToys. Among the domain ... read more ...
Fri 30th May 2008
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New York Shuts Down Affiliate Businesses - Affiliate law sends e-commerce companies running for the hills. New York residents already feel the pain of high taxes. But now the state has basically shut down many of its resident’s businesses that rely on affiliate revenue, including domain name owners. In an effort to collect more tax revenue, the state decided that companies (namely Amazon.com) that have affiliates in the state technically “have a place of business” in the state. Thus, they are required ... read more ...