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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.

4 of 308 comments (clear)

  1. Hmm, that was fast by AsmCoder8088 · · Score: 4, Informative
    I just checked on whois.net and it appears microsoft.ms is now registered....

    [whois.adamsnames.tc]
    Yes
    microsoft.ms is registered.

    Domain Name: microsoft.ms

    Registrant
    Domain Registrant
    id domain privacy network (iddp.net), 588 sutter st. #129, 94102-1102 san francisco, ca
    United States
    E-mail: tlds@rrpproxy.net
    Phone: +1.4154408001
    Fax: +1.4154408001

  2. Registered 22 Dec 2005 by ensignyu · · Score: 3, Informative

    Whoever wrote the linked blog apparently doesn't know how to do whois lookups.

  3. Could this be... by tiffany98121 · · Score: 5, Informative

    ... the absolute lamest Slashdot article ever posted?

  4. Re:is bluescreenofdeath.ms available? by MadJo · · Score: 3, Informative

    Because that looks a lot like P.ms

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