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 ... Continue ReadingLeave a Comment
Amazon’s New Products and Its Domain Name Scorecard
· UncategorizedCompany 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 ... Continue Reading2 Comments
Amazon May Be Working on MyHabit.com Apps
· UncategorizedCompany 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 ... Continue Reading4 Comments
Amazon.com Buys CloudPlayer.com Domain Name
· Domain SalesCompany 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 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
Company Behind Diapers.com and Soap.com Launches Wag.com
· UncategorizedAnother 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 ... Continue Reading1 Comment
Amazon: Kindle Beats Nook
· UncategorizedAmazon 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 ... Continue Reading3 Comments
It’s Time for a National Discussion on Sales Tax
· UncategorizedAmazon 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 ... Continue Reading8 Comments
Amazon.com Gets Patent for Selling and Leasing Domain Names
· Domain SalesAmazon 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 ... Continue Reading14 Comments
Zappos Paid $4.9 Millon for Clothes.com Domain Name
· Domain SalesZappos 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 ... Continue Reading7 Comments
Amazon.com Officially Dumps North Carolina Affiliates
· Policy & LawCompany 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 ... Continue Reading6 Comments