Tag: amazon

Amazon Technologies registered two new domain names according to whois records that caught my attention on January 27, 2016

  • AdvertisingAmazon.com
  • AmazonAdwords.com

The first registration matches the sub-domain name used by Amazon for its AAP advertising program they offer. The second domain name registration is a No No IMO!

Amazon is fine, adwords is not.

Adwords is a registered trademark of Google Inc. and since AAP competes against Google Adwords by offering online advertising, I would think that Google would not … Read the rest

Read More

Here is the latest round of digging from DotWeekly on domain name movers that are connected with large companies. Amazon is once again a big player in today’s list, as it often is, but really has been the past several days. Zynga is also a big player in today’s once again HUGE list of domain movers!

EchoMonitor.com has been acquired, likely by Amazon as they have been buying up all kinds of “Echo” domains. The domain was owned by BuyDomains.com … Read the rest

Read More

Amazon has purchased the 3 letter dot com domain name KDP.com from Mike Cohn of Light Industries. The sale price is currently unknown but I’m going on a limb and thinking it was six figures!

Amazon appears to have purchased KDP.com on or about June 30, 2014 with a secret domain buyer. Amazon launched the KDP on September 3, 2014 and has just recently revealed they purchased the 3 letter domain and now redirect KDP.com to https://kdp.amazon.com/ as they do … Read the rest

Read More

I was following the “Amazon Phone” story for likely different reasons than most… you learn things by watching and researching! I was watching how they played the domain strategy for the new Fire Phone! Could the “name of the phone” been discovered earlier? Features? How are they “hiding” what they are doing? Services used?

The simple answer is yes, from leaks of information internally, manufactures etc. the news did come out early but many features were revealed when Amazon announced … Read the rest

Read More