Amazon started a fire with the announcement of Fire Phone, a new smart phone with extended features.
Fire Phone will be exclusively on the AT&T network, competing against the Apple iPhone 5S and the Samsung Galaxy S5 and will be priced at $199 for a 32GB model and $299 for a 64GB model.
Alas, Amazon has failed at one thing, to secure the domain name FirePhone.com.
Registered in 2005, according to DomainTools, FirePhone.com currently appears to be forwarding to someone’s Amazon affiliate or product page, attempting to monetize the traffic.
This is a great way to lose the domain in a UDRP, by the way. DomainTools pins FirePhone.com to someone from China, using privacy.
In other TLDs, FirePhone.net is listed for sale, with a registration date of May 9th, 2014 which might indicate a brand leak; the registrant is in China. The .org was registered in late April as well; .info, .biz and .us are also taken!
Would you buy an Amazon phone? Then head over to AmazonFirePhone.com. 😀
Update: It seems that DomainTools displays WHOIS data cached to a 5/17/2014 date, the domain is most likely in the hands of Amazon right now. Thanks, James! 😀
