More domains suggesting YouTube competitor — Amazon registers

Recent domain name registrations add fuel to idea that Amazon will create a competitor to YouTube.

Amazon.com has expanded its domain name registration activity for domain names counting ‘AmazonTube’ and ‘OpenTube’, suggesting that that the firm is considering creating a rival to Google’s YouTube.

The prior week I wrote that the firm registered the domain names AlexaOpenTube.com, AmazonAlexaTube.com, AmazonOpenTube.com. The registrations came shortly following Google escalated its fight with Amazon over how the latter provides access to YouTube on its devices, such as the Echo Show.

Following those initial registrations, the firm registered variations of AmazonTube and OpenTube in many extensions. These include legacy extensions (OpenTube.biz), country code domain names (AmazonTube.ca) and fresh top level domain names (OpenTube.xyz).

The firm by now owns AmazonTube.com, a domain name it registered in 1998. OpenTube.com is registered to someone in Great Britain and the website is perplexing.

Dozens of fresh domain name registrations suggest that Amazon is gearing up for a fight.