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Amazon Becomes Domain Name Registrar
prostoalex writes "Internet's largest retailer is setting up a domain name registration business. Wall Street Journal recently found out that in December Amazon.com got approved as domain name registrar. According to people from ICANN, the registration included rights for .com, .net,. org, .biz and .info TLDs."
Amazon patents the process of using human-readable names to alias network addresses of computers on the internet.
Recommendations will be particularaly helpful:
"People who registered "cowsex.org" also registered: "grandmasex.org" "verbalsex.net" and "mbate.org"
Who moderates the meta-moderators?
I do wonder what they have planned for this... with the addition of domain name registration to their list of products I can imagine them introducing some sort of turnkey affiliate web site product.
One thing you don't want to see when browsing domain names:
will people stop saying "amazon will patent domain registrations"?
... 4 times after that doesn't help to make it any funnier.
the joke is dead.
it died after the first time it was posted. repeating it in a different form 3
Free shipping on two or more domains. Yaaaaaaaaaaaay.
People who searched for ".cx" also purchased:
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Clean Underwear from Target
Latex Gloves from Target
Stainless Steel Speculum from Target
~D:
I currently have one domain registered with Network Solutions, who are, of course eeeeeeevil, and when it comes up for expiration I'll go somewhere else.
I have another registered with Gandi. Although Gandi is cheap and doesn't send spam, that's about all I can say for them. I started trying yesterday to get a connection to their server so I could update a DNS entry to point to my new webhost. Tried around the clock at various times (including getting up at 1 a.m. my time), only got through after many many frustrating attempts. (Oh yeah, I e-mailed their support address, and got a reply saying that support was unavailable for an indefinite time.)
So who's good? I've heard good things about EasyDNS/opensrs/tucows, but they're not particularly cheap. Although I'm not a fan of Amazon's behavior (patents, labor relations,...), I'd be interested to see if they turn out to be a good registrar.
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Actually, it's a "Rinse. Wash. Repeat." process. (It's hard to explain this concept on a geek-friendly site, since so many programmers each year have to be rescued from showers after getting caught in that infinite loop on the shampoo bottle.)
As older divisions turn profitable, they are funneling most of those profits into setting up new businesses on their site so that they can repeat and profit again. The result is that the overall operation is hovering around break even, but the value of the stock should theoretically increase because it now represents a bigger company. (Actual stock milage will vary due to the the external factors that send the whole stock market spinning at times.)
Look at Microsoft's breakdowns when they have to file their paperwork. Their domanant businesses of Windows and Office are profitable, but then Microsoft turns around and spends money trying to break into the businesses that it doesn't dominate such as its MSN web properties. Still profitable, but how much more profitable would they be if they gave up the ghost on MSN?