Independent review process recommends ICANN reconsider .amazon top level domain name application. One of the biggest controversies in ICANN's new top level domain name program has been the denial of Amazon.com's applications for the .Amazon top level ... Continue Reading5 Comments
DNSeattle attracts large crowd in domain name hotbed
· UncategorizedOver 100 people attended event in downtown Seattle. Last week I traveled to Seattle for the DNSeattle meetup. This year's event was hosted at Amazon.com's "Living Room", which is a great facility for a meetup. Amazon.com is one of the larger ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Amazon and chonkpur cheetahs? Your guess is as good as mine
· UncategorizedAmazon.com just registered 28 weird domain names. Amazon.com does a good job buying up new product names and typos of them the moment before it releases a new service. This latest one has me baffled. Yesterday the company registered 28 domain names ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Amazon Prime Day…through 2030
· UncategorizedAmazon registers domain names to annual event through 2030. Amazon held its first Prime Day on July 15 last year. The special event was designed to be like Black Friday with big discounts during the day. The company didn't register the domain name ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Amazon registers a bunch of .com domains for its new top level domains
· UncategorizedAmazon loads up on domain names related to its new TLDs. Amazon.com has registered a bunch of defensive .com domain registrations related to its new top level domain names. The names mostly take the form of TLDDomain.com, TLDDomains.com, TLDtld.com ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Amazon files first U.S. trademark for its new TLDs: .Moi
· UncategorizedCompany wants to trademark a logo for its new .moi domain name. Amazon Registry Services has filed its first U.S. trademark for an individual top level domain name, a figurative mark for its new .moi domain name (see image). Moi means "me" in ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Amazon.com foreshadows AWS re:Invent news with domain name registrations
· UncategorizedWhat 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 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Amazon wins: .Shop and .通販 not confusingly similar after all
· Policy & LawDuh. 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 ... Continue Reading1 Comment
More Amazon new TLD reg’s and Google’s odd domain names
· UncategorizedI 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 ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Is Amazon.com the biggest user of new domain names?
· UncategorizedAmazon 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 ... Continue Reading15 Comments