Amazon announced yesterday that its “Prime Day” sale using the hashtag #PrimeDay on July 15th in celebration of Amazon’s 20th birthday will “Bury Black Friday” by comparison.
We noticed that the domain name PrimeDay.com was not owned by Amazon.
It seems we weren’t the only one that noticed the domain name PrimeDay.com, was registered way back in 2005 and would most likely receive a lot of traffic and wasn’t owned by Amazon.
According to a posting on Facebook by a well-known Domain investor who reached out to the owner of PrimeDay.com, the domain name will be sold today on July 7th or on Wednesday July 8th for an amount at least in the $xx,xxx range
According to the Facebook post the owner of the domain name, PrimeDay.com said:
“I have received 8 strong offers in the last 4 days hours (they are all in the xx,xxx thousands).
Please submit your best offer.
There will no negotiations or back/forth.
I will be committing to 1 of the offers by tomorrow or Wednesday.””
That was over 6 hours ago.
Of course Amazon could have bought the domain name for likely pennies on the dollar before making the public announcement of “Prime Day” but despite spending almost $14 Million on applying for new domain name extensions (new gTLD’s) they didn’t apparently see the need to acquire the matching .com of what they are promising to exceed one of the biggest shopping days of the year in the United States.
If you’re wondering Prime.com, is not owned by Amazon.com either
Prime.com is being forwarded to CreditReports.com
Domain ID:D9623920-AFIN
Domain Name:PRIMEDAY.IN
Created On:06-Jul-2015 01:52:32 UTC
Last Updated On:06-Jul-2015 01:52:34 UTC
Expiration Date:06-Jul-2016 01:52:32 UTC
Sponsoring Registrar:Mark Monitor (R84-AFIN)
Status:CLIENT DELETE PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:CLIENT UPDATE PROHIBITED
Status:TRANSFER PROHIBITED
Status:ADDPERIOD
Registrant ID:mmr-28993
Registrant Name:Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
Registrant Organization:Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Registrant Street1:P.O. Box 8102
Registrant Street2:
Registrant Street3:
Registrant City:Reno
Registrant State/Province:NV
Registrant Postal Code:89507
Registrant Country:US
Registrant Phone:+1.2062664064
Registrant Phone Ext.:
Registrant FAX:+1.2062667010
Registrant FAX Ext.:
Registrant Email:hostmaster@amazon.com
Admin ID:mmr-28993
Admin Name:Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
Admin Organization:Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Admin Street1:P.O. Box 8102
Admin Street2:
Admin Street3:
Admin City:Reno
Admin State/Province:NV
Admin Postal Code:89507
Admin Country:US
Admin Phone:+1.2062664064
Admin Phone Ext.:
Admin FAX:+1.2062667010
Admin FAX Ext.:
Admin Email:hostmaster@amazon.com
Tech ID:mmr-28993
Tech Name:Hostmaster, Amazon Legal Dept.
Tech Organization:Amazon Technologies, Inc.
Tech Street1:P.O. Box 8102
Tech Street2:
Tech Street3:
Tech City:Reno
Tech State/Province:NV
Tech Postal Code:89507
Tech Country:US
Tech Phone:+1.2062664064
Tech Phone Ext.:
Tech FAX:+1.2062667010
Tech FAX Ext.:
Tech Email:hostmaster@amazon.com
Name Server:NS5.MARKMONITOR.COM
Name Server:NS4.MARKMONITOR.COM
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Name Server:NS3.MARKMONITOR.COM
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primeday.sale would seem like the obvious choice but it looks like a clever domainer already picked this up , its currently parked with Sedo
I notices that too just now, but the nameserver has changed to 1and1 parking where it was registered. Most likely, the registrant is a reader of TheDomains. Would be interesting if Amazon picks it up too.
It looks like a flourishing business on PrimeDay.com – I don’t get it. Why would a company value its business name at only five figures? Times are tough . . .
Looks like Amazon was late to the party but registered Prime-day.com with MarkMonitor.com
Amazon got primeday.deals and prime-day.deals also. There may be others, I only checked that extension.
@Brian –
Thanks “clever domainer” I just cannot comprehend how global brand like Amazon, Microsoft and Apple one of whom owns and operates a domain registry, why they put the cart before the horse and announce major initiatives before securing every possible domain combination or securing a TM.
As a domain investor, it lets capitalist, market savvy, swift and opportunity aware individuals and organizations to thrive. Thanks and keep on taking this left hand does not know what right hand is doing, we welcome it.
PrimeSale.CLUB is an interesting one – that is one heckuva CLUB folks could join!
The whois of PrimeDay.de has me smiling – interestingly a table wine exists by that name.
As far as the COM version goes the current owner has a LLC by that name and it looks like since 2-3 years and he might have just hit payday.
Happy Domain Investing!
Can you believe I registered PrimeDayOnline.com 24 hours ago and I already got two offers? Wow! It seems like Amazon is trying to establish a new annual holiday that will be BIG.
You just wasted $10. UDRPesque domain. At the least it is long and 1990’s style (maybe you should have also registered primedayinterweb.com or primedaywebblog.com) You’re not a domainer, you’re a squatter.
It is a one day anniversary sale, not annual. The sale is taking place on Amazon.### sites and apps, which millions of people know to go to.
@Jack
A cybersquatter? Then you don’t know what a TM is. Last time I checked ‘prime’ and ‘day’ were two of the most generic English words and if you look up ‘prime day’ on TESS, nothing with those keywords exists. Also, do you really think it’s a one-off event to celebrate the company’s 20th anniversary rather than a day to gauge the market for a new holiday? LOL
It looks like you don’t know what a TM is. PRIME is a registered TM related to goods ans services in retail. If you place content or ads related to retail, ecommerce, or the like you could lose your little $10 investment in a second, if the mark holder even wanted it. Go back to Domainer school. And learn how to use the USPTO TESS.
UNITED STATES TRADEMARK
Word Mark PRIME
Goods and Services IC 035. US 100 101 102. G & S: Customer loyalty program services featuring rewards in the form of discounted shipping services; retail services, namely, administration of a discount program for enabling participants to obtain discounts on shipping services through use of a discount membership card. FIRST USE: 20050202. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20050202
IC 039. US 100 105. G & S: Expedited shipping service for others. FIRST USE: 20050202. FIRST USE IN COMMERCE: 20050202
Standard Characters Claimed
Mark Drawing Code (4) STANDARD CHARACTER MARK
Serial Number 78559146
Filing Date February 2, 2005
Current Basis 1A
Original Filing Basis 1B
Published for Opposition January 3, 2006
Registration Number 3234643
Registration Date April 24, 2007
Owner (REGISTRANT) Amazon Technologies, Inc. CORPORATION NEVADA Attn: Trademarks PO Box 8102 Reno NEVADA 89507
Type of Mark SERVICE MARK
Register PRINCIPAL
Affidavit Text SECT 15. SECT 8 (6-YR).
Live/Dead Indicator LIVE
Let’s be civil shall we …Prime and PrimeDay are two different terms.
Meanwhile no sale or transfer of primeday.com has been noted – unlike tall claims made by its owner on facebook.
Not sure status seems like it is a lock?
Status: clientDeleteProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientDeleteProhibited
Status: clientRenewProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientRenewProhibited
Status: clientTransferProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientTransferProhibited
Status: clientUpdateProhibited http://www.icann.org/epp#clientUpdateProhibited
All that noise and nothing yet on the dot COM buy?
PrimeDay.com smartly starts collecting emails with a deals related eBook teaser. Meanwhile #PrimeDay trends on Twitter and is declared a flop show by most! Google for funny tweets!