Amazon gearing up for their gTLD assets

[News]

Amazon is one of the biggest portfolio applicants for new gTLDs, but to date we haven’t heard much from the e-commerce giant about how it intends to use its new assets.

That could change soon, however. The company is currently looking to bulk up its registry services staff, according to two job ads posted to DI Jobs today.

Amazon is looking for a Project Manager, Registry Services and a Sr. Software Development Manager, Registry Services to “help develop and launch innovative business models across Amazon’s new domain program.”.

Amazon currently has 63 live new gTLD applications, of its original 76, 21 of which are currently in the final testing phase before delegation. Those include strings such as .buy, .read, .author and .like. Another 29 are in contracting with ICANN right now.

Full article: http://domainincite.com/17933-amazon-staffing-up-for-new-gtld-launches

 

[tomcarl]

Yup, like I thought...

Amazon is probably going to integrate domains with all of their seller's stores, giving sellers their own free or small fee domain names that can be used as a quick link to their store and to pass on to people. And it'll be popular. amazon.com/sojdhkjjdhs/store. or whatever the scheme is now, or username.buy. These .buy stores will be flooding the engines. Smart move.

Or they'll be offering personal white-label eCommerce solutions backed by the Amazon marketplace + Amazon payments + their own .buy domain.

It's going to be popular, their store sellers are going to advertise their .buy domains. They one-up'd eBay with this idea.

Amazon is probably going to impact the industry more than anyone else with these new gTLDs IMO.