The co-chairman's of the Congressional Trademark Caucus, wrote to ICANN telling them they need to approve Amazon's application for .Amazon which has been rejected due to "rights" asserted by Brazil nor Peru in relation to the Amazon Forest and tied the outcome of this issue to the IANA transition away from US oversight that ICANN is seeking: "At this critical stage in which the United States … [Read more...]
Donuts Beats Google, Amazon, Dish Network, Radix, Famous Four To .Movie New gTLD
Donuts has won the rights to operate the new gTLD .Movie beating out 7 other applicants including publicly traded Google, Amazon, and Dish Network. .Movie was the last new gTLD scheduled to go to the ICANN last resort auction in January and was apparently settled by private auction. The other applicants that have now withdrawn their applications for .Movie were Radix, Famous Four, ARI … [Read more...]
So When Does Amazon Buy Twitch.com ?
Twitch.tv was purchased this week by Amazon for $970 million, the little experiment that grew out of Justin.tv has become a major player in online video. For a long time it was rumored that Google would acquire Twitch. Now we know it is Amazon and two questions remain, 1) When will Amazon buy Twitch.com ? and 2) For how much ? The UFC also had an issue with the .com getting spillover traffic … [Read more...]
Dave Zatz Explains Amazon Ad Network
Dave Zatz runs a very popular gadget blog on Zatznotfunny.com. First off this does not look like its going to be an Adsense competitor, the ads are going to be CPM impression based and not pay per click, so I don't see this being a parking alternative. Of course Amazon could change their mind down the road. The program is invite only currently to a select group of Associates. Tech Crunch … [Read more...]