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Amazon Beats Google & Wins Rights To The New gTLD .Book

November 11, 2014 by Michael Berkens

Amazon now owns the  new gTLD .Book winning a private auction beating Google among others.

The final remaining other applicant for .Book, R.R. Bowker LLC, withdrew their application last night leaving Amazon the Winner of the Private Auction.

Other applicants include Minds + Machines (which announced yesterday the walked away with over $8 million for losing .Book as well as .cloud, .dog , .site and .style), Google, Global Domain Registry Pty Ltd, Donuts, Straat (former owners of .Co) and Famous Four.

It will be interesting to see what Amazon does with .Book.

Will Amazon use it to boost its Kindle product, maybe giving a free domain name away to each Kindle customer or each Amazon Customer?

Will Amazon market the extension to authors?

Interesting Apple did not apply for .Book

Actually .Apple didn’t apply for .Music either.

Apple just applied for .Apple

 

Filed Under: New gTLD's

About Michael Berkens

Michael Berkens, Esq. is the founder and Editor-in-Chief of TheDomains.com. Michael is also the co-founder of Worldwide Media Inc. which sold around 70K domain to Godaddy.com in December 2015 and now owns around 8K domain names . Michael was also one of the 5 Judges selected for the the Verisign 30th Anniversary .Com contest.

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