Amazon Goes With “Cloud Player” & No They Don’t Own That Domain Either

2011 March 29
by Michael H. Berkens

Amazon’s just announced its  new media player product and its called Amazon Cloud Player.

Last night some reports called the product a MediaLocker.

The domain name CloudPlayer.com has been registered since 2003.

You can read more about Amazon’s cloud player here

 

38 Responses leave one →
  1. 2011 March 29

    they did get cloudplayer.co …today

  2. 2011 March 29

    smile, now you will have to write an article on when it is good to have a fixed price set….as on medialocker.com (if it was sold)

  3. 2011 March 29
    MHB permalink

    Interesting

    CloudPlayer.com has an Alexa Rank of 11 million today and no compete rank so lets see where it is in a month.

  4. 2011 March 29

    They offer a “Cloud Drive” as well, but I believe the .com is with Rackspace. Perhaps they don´t have the intention to run separate websites. See “Amazon AppStore”

  5. 2011 March 29

    Hopefully they don’t try to do the TM / WIPO move once it gets assigned to them.

  6. 2011 March 29
    MHB permalink

    Sean

    Cloudplayer.com has been registered since 2003, if somehow that domain can get taken we got big problems.

  7. 2011 March 29

    cloudplayer.co – I cant see them marketing that domain?

    I think they shall promote it via Amazon.com, Will be interested to see what the competition shall be doing and who they shall be?

    Apple, Yahoo, Google, Who else…

    I seen this site MP3Tunes.com offering your Itunes account any computer or cool devices online…. Calling it a Music Locker….

    Is it going to be known as Cloud or Locker ? Which one shall be the most used…?

    Amazon has choosen Cloud Player but dont own CloudPlayer.com yet…

    What about Locker Player or LockerPlayer.com will that be the next term? (Already Registered)

    What shall Apple call there service, It is due to launch soon…

    Will this help get legal digital music going again?

  8. 2011 March 29

    they are in good company … the same happened to Google, Microsoft, Apple and other “big”

  9. 2011 March 29
    LS Morgan permalink

    Alexa rank is gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarbage in terms of being an accurate snapshot of performance.

    Also, chalk this up in that special category known as “The Only People Who Care Are Domainers”. Yes, at some point, someone’s going to develop an application or release a product and not give a shit that they don’t own the bang-on domain name. If it’s there to register they probably will, but they aren’t going to pay a scalpers price to buy it from someone else since it just means so little to their existing product or brand.

    Maybe it’s a site like Amazon that doesn’t need to own a ton of keyword domain names diluting their centralized brand (where 95% of their customers buy-decisions will occur). Perhaps its a company that uses a http://www.company.com/product approach.

    This is just so, so irrelevant. There is definitely a line in the sand where John Q Public doesn’t ‘get it’ on domains, but everything past that line is domainer-delusion where its believed that the eCommerce world begins and ends with domain names.

  10. 2011 March 29
    John permalink

    They took the .biz as well, I am sure they will make a play for the .com, all the owner can say is no.

  11. 2011 March 29

    Watching CNBC and they keep reffering to Amazon New Cloud service as a Music Locker…. not Cloud Player…, heard them same it now two or three time

    “Amazon’s New Cloud Service Music Locker”

  12. 2011 March 29
    MHB permalink

    Robbie

    And our good Friend Frank Schilling owns that domain, musiclocker.com

  13. 2011 March 29
    John permalink

    Well why is amazon registering everything under cloud player, and not music locker?

  14. 2011 March 29
    Ryan permalink

    CNBC can’t even get stocks right let alone news stories

  15. 2011 March 29
    Ryan permalink

    Since when is Frank anyones friend, what has he ever done for you?

  16. 2011 March 29
    John permalink

    Funny amazon registers cloudplayer.biz but not musiclocker.biz, I will let the facts speak for themselves

  17. 2011 March 29

    @MHB, We know Frank has MusicLocker.com, we just picked up Music-Locker.com

    @ryan – I’m not saying CNBC is correct in saying ” Music Locker” just point it out that if a major news channel is saying Music Locker not Cloud Player it is going to drive traffic to that term…

  18. 2011 March 29
    MHB permalink

    Ryan

    I regard Frank to be a good friend and actually a great guy.

    I don’t think the measure of a friendship should be “what has he ever done for you”

  19. 2011 March 29
    James permalink

    @MHB

    “I don’t think the measure of a friendship should be “what has he ever done for you”

    Well said!

  20. 2011 March 29

    The service is bloody slow from here in London.

  21. 2011 March 29
    Ryan permalink

    He is a nice guy because you heard it on a blog? Stop sucking up he hasn’t done anything for any of you, he isn’t going to buy your crap domains, or hand you a check! Grow some hair boys

  22. 2011 March 29
    Meyer permalink

    Frank is not a potential buyer for my crappy domains.
    He has enough of his own gems and crap like all of us.
    (Except he has a better ratio than me.)

    A person can be a friend without one financially profiting
    from the relationship.

  23. 2011 March 29

    Love this cloud cos I own many cloud domains.

    CloudCombo.com covers all

    cloudczar.com

  24. 2011 March 29
    MHB permalink

    Meyer

    “A person can be a friend without one financially profiting
    from the relationship.”

    Agreed and well said

  25. 2011 March 29

    MusicLocker.com will be the name of Apple’s service however your “locker” will reside within your account at me.com
    http://fragerfactor.blogspot.com/2011/03/schilling-scores-again-apple-sells-out.html

  26. 2011 March 29
    Dean permalink

    I have a few decent cloud domains that I registered and as more and more of the internet becomes cloud based I think it’s a good investment. I can’t recall all of them but a few off the top of my head:

    CloudAdNetwork.com
    CloudAdExchange.com
    iGamingCloud.com
    CloudiGaming.com
    AutomatedCloud.com

    etc, etc…

  27. 2011 March 29
    Mike permalink

    Dean, Really get a life, and stop peddling your crap, have some class

  28. 2011 March 29
    Dean permalink

    Mike no peddling here, it’s on topic, I never said I was selling them or offering to, so piss off.

  29. 2011 March 29
    Dean permalink

    Also I think the point was lost on a few. Most, I would guess 99% of the people who commented in regard to this post, had they been offered cloudplayer or cloudlocker for a $1,000 a few months ago might have turned it down. I am not adverse to shameless self promotion, but I could have rattled off at least 5 more cloud related domains had that been my sole intent.

  30. 2011 March 29

    So what about that fixed price MediaLocker.com sale now?

  31. 2011 March 30
    James permalink

    @JP
    “So what about that fixed price MediaLocker.com sale now?”

    Until we know who bought it, no change. It’s one of the top names for these applications.

  32. 2011 March 30
    MHB permalink

    James

    Looks like the owner of the domain caught the Amazon story early and pulled the domain out of the sales channel.

    I guess you can write him to see what the current price is, or if its even for sale.

    Now just a parked page with no buy it now option

  33. 2011 July 12

    but AMAcloud and AMAplayer are light years better!

  34. 2011 July 13
    Giles permalink

    Amazon.com Buys CloudPlayer.com

  35. 2011 July 19
    Giles permalink

    Not sure if I have posted these sales, but here are a few more.

    These are sales from 2011 only

    Cloudasp.com $1,970
    DatabaseClouds.com $2,500
    CloudContainer.com $10,000
    OnCloud.com $2,151
    CloudBook.net $2,000 (nice sale for a .net)
    CloudSAAS.com $2,250
    OnCloud9.com $2,300
    CloudSide.com $1,200

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