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After $1bn deal, Amazon registers Twitch domains in three gTLDs. Can you guess which three?
Amazon has paid almost a billion dollars for the gaming community Twitch and immediately set about defensively registering some domain names.
amazontwitch.com, amazontwitch.net, and amazontwitch.org were all registered via MarkMonitor on Monday, coinciding with the announcement of the acquisition.
The company even registered twitchamazon.com, but not the corresponding .net and .org.
But Amazon, a major new gTLD applicant itself, does not appear to have registered the string in any new gTLDs, despite being one of the most prolific defensive registrants.
The company owns the string “fire” in scores of new gTLDs and appears to have blanket-registered “prime” and “kindle” in pretty much every new gTLD sunrise to date.
Twitch, pre-acquisition, doesn’t seem to have involved itself in new gTLDs at all, though the string “twitch” has been registered in several.
Bad news for the owners of these domains?
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