Amazon Bought 4 New .CO URLs

Posted on 18 May, 2011 by Nate Hoffelder in Amazon // 3 Comments

Amazon Bought 4 New .CO URLs Amazon TechCrunch reported yesterday that Amazon got the rights to 4 new URLs on the .CO domain from the licensing authority in Columbia. The 4 URLS are:

  • A.Co
  • Z.Co
  • K.Co
  • Cloud.co

I bet you can guess that the a.co is for Amazon, k.co refers to the Kindle, and cloud.co will be used with Amazon's new cloud storage service. But the Z.co URL might be a stumper if not for Amazon's logo. Look at the logo again. Do you see how the smile/arrow starts at the 'A' and ends on the 'z'? That was a deliberate design decision because Amazon wanted the logo to imply "from A to Z". i bet that's why they bought the z.co URL.

via TechCrunch

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3 Comments on Amazon Bought 4 New .CO URLs

  1. MNielsen // 18 May, 2011 at 1:43 pm // Reply

    The Z.co is most likely for Zappos which is owned by Amazon

  2. Scott_T // 19 May, 2011 at 8:58 am // Reply

    Never noticed the a to z, I always thought it was a smiley face

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