On Thurday, Amazon announced that its Instant Video service was now offering customers more than 100,000 movies and TV shows.
A day before the announcement, the company’s legal department was quietly registering related domain names from instantcloudvideo.com to streaminginstantvideo.com, with its registrar MarkMonitor.
The company picked up a dozen domains centered around its Instant Video service.
http://whois.domaintools.com/amazoncloudvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/cloudinstantvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/cloudprimeinstantvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/instantcloudvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/instantstreamingvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/instantvideocloud.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/instantvideointhecloud.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/primeinstantvideocloud.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/primestreamingvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/primevideocloud.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/streaminginstantvideo.com
http://whois.domaintools.com/streamingprimeinstantvideo.com
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