It'll be a lot cheaper if you do it before having to hire lawyers (not to mention Amazon can probably yank your affiliate earnings for terms violations). Buy a new domain, change a couple bits of text, and you're done. An hour, tops.
Trademark infringement. All infringements have to be responded to or Amazon loses rights (eventually) to the trademark. When you get the "please stop infringing" email that asks you (hopefully nicely) to hand over the domain, recognize that this is entirely expected and predictable behavior for every trademark owning entity in the world. Don't freak out - just pivot to "giftcardbitcoins.com"
Their name is in the domain, the service uses their name, and it's selling their products.
> their lawyers probably dont get out of bed for less than a $1,000,000
Their lawyers will be on salary, and trademarks have to be aggressively defended to remain valid. This is why large corporations smack down such violations on a regular basis.
So far so good, just got the first email - "Congratulations! We've received your payment and are currently processing your gift card order. We have to wait for your transaction to be verified, so it may take a little while before you receive your gift code. Don't worry — We'll email it to you as soon as it's ready. Thanks for using AmazonBitcoins! "
Let's see if the gift card comes through in the next couple hours (or however long a transaction takes to verify in bitcoin world these days)
"Success! Your Amazon.com gift code is ready. To redeem your gift code, go to www.amazon.com/giftcards and click on Redeem Amazon Gift Cards in the top bar. Thanks for being patient while we processed your order."
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[ 3.2 ms ] story [ 33.5 ms ] threadTheir name is in the domain, the service uses their name, and it's selling their products.
> their lawyers probably dont get out of bed for less than a $1,000,000
Their lawyers will be on salary, and trademarks have to be aggressively defended to remain valid. This is why large corporations smack down such violations on a regular basis.
> also, this brings business to amazon
Doesn't matter if it risks their trademark.
Let's see if the gift card comes through in the next couple hours (or however long a transaction takes to verify in bitcoin world these days)
"Success! Your Amazon.com gift code is ready. To redeem your gift code, go to www.amazon.com/giftcards and click on Redeem Amazon Gift Cards in the top bar. Thanks for being patient while we processed your order."