Amazon Review Site question

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I have heard that by using a company or product name in your domain ... for example sony tv is against Amazon's TOS and being caught will result in your account being banned.

Honestly I thought the only concern would be having to deal with the company if they didn't like it and not Amazon. After all you are sending them to Amazon to purchase the product and not somewhere else.

Has anyone else heard about this or had any personal experience with a similar situation?
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  • Profile picture of the author Gaz Cooper
    Originally Posted by Drizlek View Post

    I have heard that by using a company or product name in your domain ... for example sony tv is against Amazon's TOS and being caught will result in your account being banned.

    Honestly I thought the only concern would be having to deal with the company if they didn't like it and not Amazon. After all you are sending them to Amazon to purchase the product and not somewhere else.

    Has anyone else heard about this or had any personal experience with a similar situation?
    Amazon wont approve a site which has a trademark name in the domain and rightly so.
    If you do get it past them you can expect a nice letter from the owner of the trademarks lawyer.

    Early in my Amazon career I made that mistake, and quickly realized I was wasting my time and money, and after 5 legal letters and 6 sites gone I learned my lesson.

    Don't do it, you don't need it, and can rank for the same product without using the companies trademarked name.

    Kickin it on Amazon

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    • Profile picture of the author Drizlek
      Thanks for the advice. I mean personally, I would not think there would be any issues as long as you were selling the brands products you had in your domain... but at the same time I guess it's best just avoid the situation all together no matter how unusual it may seem.
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  • Profile picture of the author Benjamin Ehinger
    Originally Posted by Drizlek View Post

    I have heard that by using a company or product name in your domain ... for example sony tv is against Amazon's TOS and being caught will result in your account being banned.

    Honestly I thought the only concern would be having to deal with the company if they didn't like it and not Amazon. After all you are sending them to Amazon to purchase the product and not somewhere else.

    Has anyone else heard about this or had any personal experience with a similar situation?
    Yes and I learned the lesson the hard way a while back. You have to be careful with using brand names in your domain. However, you can get a more general domain name and target the product name with good SEO in your on site content.

    Benjamin Ehinger
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  • Profile picture of the author dmjones23
    Originally Posted by Drizlek View Post

    I have heard that by using a company or product name in your domain ... for example sony tv is against Amazon's TOS and being caught will result in your account being banned.

    Honestly I thought the only concern would be having to deal with the company if they didn't like it and not Amazon. After all you are sending them to Amazon to purchase the product and not somewhere else.

    Has anyone else heard about this or had any personal experience with a similar situation?
    DONT DO IT, I learn that lesson very early in my IM career, I hard registered 4 domains with blackerry trade mark in my domains and I was presented with a letter from Blackberry lawyers. The good this is you dont to to do this, there are keyword phrase with high enough searches for the product you wish to promote.

    A very good question indeed, all these responses would save you the two most important resourse. TIME AND MONEY. GOOD LUCK
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  • Profile picture of the author Matt Ward
    Originally Posted by Drizlek View Post

    I have heard that by using a company or product name in your domain ... for example sony tv is against Amazon's TOS and being caught will result in your account being banned.

    Honestly I thought the only concern would be having to deal with the company if they didn't like it and not Amazon. After all you are sending them to Amazon to purchase the product and not somewhere else.

    Has anyone else heard about this or had any personal experience with a similar situation?
    I assume that Amazon is just protecting themselves and their image. They don't want to be associated with copyright infringement.
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  • Profile picture of the author Ajay Tiwari
    Drizlek, instead of using brand name in domain which can create issues like trademark infringement, i would suggest use your niche related generic keyword as a domain name which would give you more exposure & keep you away from any legal issues.
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  • Profile picture of the author phpnetpro
    It is important to avoid brand names or other trademarked names in your domains. What Gaz says about Amazon's actions is correct.

    You can still target these types of keyword phrases on your sites, but you have to use a more generic keyword phrase as a domain. Individual pages or categories can then be built on the site to target those brand or product keyword phrases. Doing it this way is the proper way that won't get you in trouble with Amazon or the actual companies.

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  • Profile picture of the author Nickels
    So if I wanted to create a review site for say the ipad 2 or something, could i use ipad2review.com or does that go against as well?
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Franklin
      Originally Posted by Nickels View Post

      So if I wanted to create a review site for say the ipad 2 or something, could i use ipad2review.com or does that go against as well?
      Just don't put the trademarked name in the top level part of the domain.

      So ipad2review.com is bad but you could have tabletpcreview.com/ipad2.

      So if you were using Wordpress to create a tablet pc review site, you would create a post or page reviewing the ipad 2 in Wordpress. So you would setup your permalink as /%postname%/ which would setup your permalink as the title of your post which you would set as Ipad 2.
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  • Profile picture of the author dmjones23
    Hi Nickles

    You can follow the approach to what ajaykt suggested think about your visitors and give them better value by reviewing more that just one product, if you wanted to review tablets instead of ipad2review.com, consider best tablet pc or tablet pc review, (these domain may have already taken). I hope you get the logic, feel free to ask if you got anymore questions.

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    • Profile picture of the author bilko99
      Google g h d in the U.K and look at the results at the bottom of page 1.
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  • Profile picture of the author thedog
    Up to you, I've heard for and against on this one... I'm on the against fence.

    That said, for any risk takers out there I've a couple of tasty trademarked EMD's if they're interested... pm me.
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  • Profile picture of the author tanero
    I have also lost 2 of my domains, related to blackberry and lego brand. than I have changed my strategy to "freedom domains".
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