Tag Archives: Amazon

Fri 5th February 2016
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Attacker gives Amazon feign sum from a whois query, and gets genuine address - A former Amazon software developer had his account information given away by of all companies, Amazon. It seems that this all started with domain registrations, for some reason Eric Springer used the address of a hotel instead of his own. He writes on Medium.com ” It’s just a fake address of a hotel that was in the same zip code where I lived. I used it to register some domains, knowing that the whois information all too often becomes public. I used the same general area as I lived, so that my ... read more ...
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 ...
Fri 9th October 2015
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Amazon Registry Appears To Be Off To A Rough Start - We wrote a couple of weeks ago about Amazon launching Amazonregistry.com as a domain name registrar for at least the new gTLD’s At the time the site resolved but was not taking any registrations. But since at least yesterday the site is returning an error page something you usually don’t see on a website of one the largest corporation’s on earth: ... 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 ...
Sun 27th September 2015
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Amazon Turns On AmazonRegistry.com To Sell New gTLD Domain Names - Amazon applied for 76 new generic top-level domain names (gTLD’s). When Amazon applied for their new gTLD’s they applied to operate them on a closed basis meaning the public would not be able to register any domain names without Amazon allocating them, but the Governmental Advisory Council (GAC) to ICANN nixed the plan for the most part, while still allowing .Brand Applications. Amazon won the rights to some of new gTLD’s it applied for; In an ICANN Auction of Last Resort, which results are ... read more ...
Sun 30th August 2015
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Amazon Getting In 3D Printing Biz? Registers Amazon3DPrinting.com: Filed a Patent in February - Is Amazon.com (AMZN) about to get into the 3D Printing business? Amazon just registered the domain name Amazon3Dprinting.com, after filing a Patent back in February 2015. The domain Amazon3Dprinting.com was just registered by Amazon through brand protection company MarkMonitor.com  on August 27th. 3D printing has certainly been one of the hotter trends to take off over the years. Back in 2010 is when domainers really started talking about all things 3D with 3D printing being at the top of the list. Back ... 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 ...
Tue 23rd June 2015
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Congress TM Caucus Tells ICANN To Give Amazon; .Amazon If It Wants Its Independence - The co-chairman’s of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, wrote to ICANN telling them they need to approve Amazon’s application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to “rights” asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest and tied the outcome of this issue to the IANA transition away from US oversight that ICANN is seeking: “At this critical stage in which the United States Government prepares to transition stewardship of the JANA functions, we believe it is incumbent ... read more ...
Thu 15th January 2015
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Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD - Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and  Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI Registry Services, and NU Dot Co LLC,  the company that sold the .Co registry to Neustar for $109 million dollars. As ... read more ...
Wed 15th October 2014
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Do-Over: 2 TLD apps that mislaid in objections get another chance - .Cam and Amazon IDN domain name decisions will be reviewed. ICANN is giving two new top level domain name applications another look after embarrassing inconsistencies in string confusion objections. The board’s new TLD committee determined that decisions against Amazon.com’s .通販 application and Rightside’s .cam should be reviewed. I provide the background to this story in detail here. In the case of .cam, Verisign succeeded in a string confusion objection ... read more ...
Sun 31st August 2014
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So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ? - Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long time it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and two questions remain, 1) When will Amazon buy Twitch.com ? and 2) For how much ? The UFC also had an issue with the .com getting spillover traffic from its UFC.tv and eventually purchased UFC.com. UFC.tv shows videos while the .com is the main hub for ... read more ...
Sat 23rd August 2014
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Dave Zatz Explains Amazon Ad Network - Dave Zatz runs a very popular gadget blog on Zatznotfunny.com. First off this does not look like its going to be an Adsense competitor, the ads are going to be CPM  impression based and not pay per click, so I don’t see this being a parking alternative. Of course Amazon could change their mind down the road. The program is invite only currently to a select group of Associates. Tech Crunch wrote: According to Amazon’s description of the new CPM ads, the ads are tailored to the user using Amazon’s ... 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 ...
Thu 10th October 2013
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Google and Amazon.com backpedal on sealed tip turn domain names - Google to make one more domain open, Amazon relents on 25. Google and Amazon.com have changed their minds about operating some of their applied-for generic top level domain names as “closed” domain names. For many domains, the companies had planned to not offer second level domain name registrations, such as myname.blog, to the public. Instead, they planned to only register such domains within the company. Amazon wanted to keep all of its domain names restricted ... 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 ...
Tue 30th July 2013
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Amazon.com, HP, Ford among those lobbying Washington about domain names - Big companies join domain heavyweights in lobbying U.S. government about domain name issues. It’s been a couple years since I’ve done a round up of how much domain name companies are spending on lobbying in Washington. I just ran an updated analysis and made two key observations. First, major domain name companies including VeriSign and Go Daddy are spending less on lobbying than they used to. Second, a lot of non-domain name companies are lobbying about domain ... read more ...
Thu 18th July 2013
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Pinterest loses quarrel with Amazon.com over .Pin domain name - Social site loses objection for .pin top level domain name. Social networking site Pinterest has lost an objection it filed with World Intellectual Property Organization over Amazon.com’s bid to get the .pin top level domain name. One of Pinterest’s challenges was showing some sort of rights and secondary meaning in the term “pin”. Amazon.com pointed out that Pinterest has no registered marks for the word pin. It has 63 pending applications to trademark pin, ... read more ...
Mon 15th April 2013
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Final new TLD conflict tally: Donuts 55, Amazon 24, Google 22 - Three of the largest applicants for new TLDs are facing a mountain of objections. Donuts, Amazon, and Google have the dubious honor of having the most objected-to applications for new top level domains. There were 263 formal objections to new top level domains, and that doesn’t include GAC advice. Donuts received 55 objections covering 45 unique objections, which means about one out of seven of its 307 applications are facing an objection. 24 of Donuts’ objections ... read more ...
Wed 13th June 2012
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Google and Amazon contest on 21 new tip turn domain applications - Google and Amazon had a lot of the same ideas for new top level domains. One of the biggest battles over new top level domains will pit internet heavyweights Google and Amazon against each other. Amazon applied for 76 top level domains and Google applied for 101 top level domains. But I count 20 — and perhaps 21 — domain names that the two will have to duke it out for. Here’s the list of domains that both companies applied for: .App .Book .Cloud .Dev .Drive .Free .Game .Kid/.Kids .Mail .Map .Movie .Music .Play .Search .Shop .Show .Spot .Store .Talk .Wow .You And ... read more ...