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Microsoft Using .MS TLD

Posted by kdawson on from the step-right-up dept.

mqudsi writes "Microsoft is using the .MS top-level domain, assigned to the Caribbean island of Montserrat, for its Web 2.0-flavored Popfly project. You can get your own .MS name if you really want to — there are no restrictions on foreign ownership — at $180 US for 2 years. As of this writing microsoft.ms is available." In an obliquely related note, TechBlorge has up a rumination on the resemblance of the Popfly logo to Tux.

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  1. Re:Popfly? by MSFTVet · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I'm not on the Popfly team but I can assure you that they're super small, "lightly funded" by any standard and definately outside of the bounds of the traditional MSFT brand. Maybe once you have the chance to use the site you'll have a more informed opinion on whether the app is cool or not, huh?

  2. Re:Popfly? by notaprguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Can't resist. And why is it that you're uniquely qualified to identify popfly as a "masturbatory web-2.0 buzzword festival..."? You've used the site?

  3. Re:Popfly? by notaprguy · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Nah, I don't think it was a metaphor. I was either just ignorance, annoying flame-bait or possibly wishful thinking.