Amazon Wow’s Us & Beats Google and Rightside To Win The .Wow New gTLD

January 11, 2015 by Michael Berkens

Amazon (AMZN) is the proud owner of the new gTLD .WOW as both Google (GOOG) and Rightside (NAME) have withdrawn their applications.

.Wow was scheduled to go to the ICANN Last Resort Auction later this month.

Remember that Amazon originally applied to operate all the new gTLD’s they applied for, all 74 of them, on a closed basis which the Governmental Advisory Counsel to ICANN, otherwise known as the GAC put the breaks on.

I’m not sure how Amazon plans to .Wow us but I’m sure they have something in mind which made them outbid Google and Rightside for the rights to operate the .Wow registry

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.