In an article on TheLocal.se there is a report that Amazon quietly purchased Amazon.se for $554,500. Tip of the cap to Aaron Strong for the info. Only a few days after it was announced that Amazon is to establish three data centres in Sweden, it has now emerged that the American e-commerce and computing giant has quietly purchased the rights to a key Swedish domain name. The "Amazon.se" … [Read more...]
AutoNews.com: Amazon May Roll Out Its Car Portal Using a New gTLD
According to AutoNews.com, Amazon launched Amazon Vehicles, a "car research portal where consumers can view and reviews of thousands of new and classic cars, while being able to upload photos and videos of their own rides." AutoNews.com went on to suggest that Amazon might migrate the service to a new gTLD or at least use a new gTLD as a redirect. "Amazon already has several domain names … [Read more...]
Attacker gives Amazon fake details from a whois query, and gets real 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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]
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...]
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 … [Read more...]
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 … [Read more...]