“Just walk out” technology by Amazon

Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by chipperyman573 on Monday March 09, 2020 @04:54PM (#22529697)

This post looked kind of weird to me so I looked up the whois, it's registered to godaddy. Which is odd because it is not the same registrar as amazon.com or aws, and aws operates a domain registration service so I can't imagine a real amazon service would use godaddy. Combined with the fact that there's no concrete plans set in place, it seems really fake.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by dang on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:00PM (#22529738)

That's weird. But it seems that there's some credible reporting that it's from Amazon: https://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-amazon-com-store-technolog.... They even name the VP involved, so if it's a fake it's an elaborate one.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by tzs on Monday March 09, 2020 @05:14PM (#22529877)

If someone else had registered the name at GoDaddy before Amazon wanted it (it was registered in 2013), and then Amazon bought it from them, would Amazon transfer it to their normal registrar right away or let it stay where it is until it is time to renew?

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by radicalriddler on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:22PM (#22531828)

I doubt Amazon would care about transfer fees, but having used Godaddy, they would've been hard to play with.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by discreditable on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @11:29AM (#22536256)

Some registrars don't allow you to transfer the domain away from them for a period of time after transferring ownership. If they acquired the domain recently that could be the reason.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by purec on Monday March 09, 2020 @06:22PM (#22530535)

Seemed fake till I saw noticed this with Amazon Go https://www.amazon.com/b?ie=UTF8&node=16008589011

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by parekhnish on Monday March 09, 2020 @09:37PM (#22531931)

Definitely gives it more legitimacy!

Also, not sure if genuine mistake or sneaky "clickbait": The video has its `video_poster` image that's eerily similar to a YouTube screenshot, though the video itself is hosted on Amazon's servers, not YouTube.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by x__x on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:43PM (#22531580)

Most of their other domains seem to be registered with MarkMonitor Inc. domain registrar.

Even if they recently bought this domain and it was pushed to one of their GoDaddy accounts, you think they would immediately initiate a transfer to MarkMonitor to put it in their portfolio of managed domains.

In July of 2019, the domain had a coming soon page on it, that was in German:

https://web.archive.org/web/20190709115714/http://justwalkou...

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by paxys on Monday March 09, 2020 @07:06PM (#22530905)

It's likely that the domain was already hosted on godaddy and they wanted to launch first before doing the migration.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by bspammer on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:38PM (#22531546)

The certificate is signed by Amazon.

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Re:“Just walk out” technology by Amazon by DenseComet on Monday March 09, 2020 @08:59PM (#22531681)

Aren't certificates issued on AWS signed by Amazon?

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