Amazon announced today its changing its brand name it uses in China from Joyo Amazon to Amazon China.
Amazon also announced that it has obtained the domain name Z.cn, which is re-directing to Amazon’s Chinese official website at Amazon.cn.
According to the one story I found on the domain, there was no discussion of how Amazon obtained the domain or how much they paid for it.
The domain name Z.Cn is currently registered to “Wang Hanhua” so its not clear they even own the domain at this point
Speaking of shortener its now been over 5 months since Amazon announced it had acquired A.co, K.co, Z.co and cloud.co from the .CO registry in May of this year.
None of those domains even resolve.
Not sure what’s going on with them but that a very long time for domains to be inactive especially when statements made around the acquisition indicated each single letter .Co is priced into the seven figures.
(°o°) -- six amazing HP tablets domains -- (°o°) says
October 31, 2011 at 11:00 ambecause probably Amazon (like many other big companies) has bought these .CO domains only to protect its A mazon – K indle – Z appos sites/domains
Steve says
October 31, 2011 at 11:02 amMaybe they think China is a more stable extension(Country) than .Co-lumbia. Certainly has a larger market ready to buy.
Still have to give credit to the sales team at .co for convincing buyers to purchase some of their names for big $$.
Nice to see .cc picking up some sales lately with no in-house sales team. I always like the .cc extension. It is the fastest and easiest extension to type.
Joe says
October 31, 2011 at 11:58 am@Steve
What does .cc have to do with .co and this post?
[] six amazing HP tablets domains [] says
October 31, 2011 at 12:06 pmno doubt that .cc is faster to type than .co and .com … several microseconds saved every day 🙂
Steve says
October 31, 2011 at 12:27 pm@Joe,
Whenever I see a new country code being pushed it always makes me think of the .cc extension. Great extension, easy to type, easy to remember.
So far .co success has been because of the big $$ being spent to promote it. imo
@sixamazing – with billions of people on the net potentially saving a few milliseconds per user means days and/or years saved in wasted bits and bytes and electricity. 🙂
[] six amazing HP tablets domains [] says
October 31, 2011 at 2:18 pm@steve
true, especially if you multiply the saving for the next 1,000 years 🙂
Not the Real Bob Cline but wish I were says
October 31, 2011 at 2:25 pmGood points.
If .co was selected since it’s one letter shorter than .com. If you took the argument further and wanted to create the most efficient shortener for .com, then .CC would have to be it.
It’s like you start to type .com but don’t need to go to the “o” let alone the “m,” you can just type the “c” again.
Great insight folks.
.CC it is.
Steve says
October 31, 2011 at 5:56 pmThat`s the new slogan for the greenest extension.
“Use .CC and save the Planet!”
Glad I didn’t let them all drop. 🙂
Not the Real Bob Cline but wish I were says
October 31, 2011 at 6:16 pmI see the .CC movement is beginning to bloom on this thread.
All it takes is a few evangelists to open the world’s eyes to the simple beauty of the double C.
.CC is the new king, .COM can be our queen and .CO the court jester.
Avoid the .COM/.COnfusion, go with the Double C.