Amazon Registers Domain With Google Trademark: AmazonAdwords.com

Amazon Registers Domain With Google Trademark: AmazonAdwords.com

Amazon Technologies registered two new domain names according to whois records that caught my attention on January 27, 2016

• AdvertisingAmazon.com
• AmazonAdwords.com

The first registration matches the sub-domain name used by Amazon for its AAP advertising program they offer. The second domain name registration is a No No IMO!

Amazon is fine, adwords is not.

Adwords is a registered trademark of Google Inc. and since AAP competes against Google Adwords by offering online advertising, I would think that Google would not be happy with this domain name registration.

Are Amazon and Google potentially going to work together and Amazon registered the domain name with permission from Google? That is unknown but not that likely IMO.

I’m not sure why Amazon would register the AmazonAdwords.com domain name, but according to whois records, they did. They should well know the rules.

To note, Amazon also registered the domain name AlexaAppStore.com and are redirecting the domain to a page about the Alexa speaker and its “Alexa Skills”.