Amazon goes on defensive binge in conjunction with highly anticipated feature launch.
This is huge news for Echo users and could also be very bad news for Sonos, which is probably the king of multi-room audio playback. When we built our house five years ago we spent thousands of dollars on Sonos equipment. Today I would probably just buy a bunch of echo devices.
As Amazon always does, it registered a bunch of domains as a defensive action for this launch. If history is a guide, it will register more over the coming days. Here are 30 domains it registered late last night/early today:
alexa-multi-room-audio-sdk.com
alexa-multi-room-audio.com
alexa-multi-room-music-sdk.com
alexa-multi-room-music.com
alexa-multi-room-sdk.com
alexaaudiosdk.com
alexaconnectedspeaker.com
alexaconnectedspeakers.com
alexamulti-room.com
alexamultiroom.com
alexamultiroomaudio.com
alexamultiroomaudiosdk.com
alexamultiroommusic.com
alexamultiroommusicsdk.com
alexamultiroomsdk.com
alexamusicsdk.com
alexasynchronized.com
alexasynchronizedaudio.com
alexasynchronizedmusic.com
echo-multi-room-audio.com
echo-multi-room-music.com
echoconnectedspeaker.com
echoconnectedspeakers.com
echomultiroomaudio.com
echomultiroommusic.com
echomultiroomspeakers.com
echosynchronizedspeaker.com
echosynchronizedspeakers.com
The company also registered some domain names related to the Echo being sold at Whole Foods, which is formally acquired earlier this week.
Reading the list of domains, and that was the way I thought Day#1 of domaining. 17 years later, I see it as a waste of money. It would be like hiring someone in pre school and not a college grad to make the decision as to what to buy, for the idea of a product.