Amazon gets ICANN accredited.

Hmm..its interesting that they list Amazon Legal as the contact. Is this a sign that we can expect more BigCo Trademark Protection Dept.'s to take things into their own hands? Tucows has quite a few resellers that are simply providing internal services to the rest of their company - getting accredited for such a purpose would definitely be the next step, but it is quite a step given the pain-in-the-assish requirements of accreditation. Of course, a bunch of lawyers in a corporate legal department might just take such a thing to be sport.

"1-Click Domain Registration? theodp writes "Amazon.com quietly received approval last December to sell domain names to companies and individuals. Amazon Registrar, Inc. is now listed as an ICANN-Accredited Registrar. More details in this WSJ story (subscription required)." Won't normally post WSJ only articles due to the subscription requirements, but this one is pretty interesting. I'll add a subscription-free link if I can find one."

[via Techdirt]

A belated welcome to the biz folks.

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George Kirikos, March 4, 2003

There's a comparable subscription-free link available via Yahoo news, at:

http://sg.biz.yahoo.com/030228/72/38eaf.html

And at the WSJ site "proper" at:

http://online.wsj.com/article_email/0,,SB1046476188963467263,00.html?mod=technology_main_whats_news

Is Tucows still offering back-end services for wanna-be registrars? Perhaps that initiative should be stepped up, for the bigger corporate clients, or domain owners with valuable domain names, who might do that if the economics are right. (I had emailed asking about the OpenHRS wholesale product a while ago, http://resellers.tucows.com/openhrs/ , but never received a reply). I bet certain companies like large law firms, banks, or a Microsoft would be naturals to take all their names "in house" so to speak. Anything to help accelerate movement away from NSI is a good thing, too. ;)