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Microsoft Using .MS TLD
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.
Tag: SlowNewsDay
How we know is more important than what we know.
I want the most active domain in the ms tld.
You'd almost think they were both birds or something.
Someone get ComicSans.MS
-- lol pwned
Why don't major corporations have their own TLDs as part of the system? It would cut back on a lot of phishing and ICANN doesn't seem to be reluctant to do whatever they can to make a buck.
[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
Whoever wrote the linked blog apparently doesn't know how to do whois lookups.
We're a hip crazy cool start up
it's bad enough when people mean it when they write it... it's so much better when it's forced by some guy upstairs.
http://i.hate.ms/
That way it really looks Web 2.0!! yay..
They're cute birds... wow..anyone who has a cute bird as a logo is ripping off linux?
First of all, they obviously look similar
really? huh.. you know you're right. If someone hadn't pointed out it was the popfly website, I would have swore I was at a linux site.
The resemblance is damn near perfect. I like the way the pink really brings out the black and white....
this is beyond slow news day.
linuxsavedmefrom.ms
... the absolute lamest Slashdot article ever posted?
but if they changed the font it would look like something from Apple.
Do you even lift?
These aren't the 'roids you're looking for.
Anyone check out the popfly site?
I get a kick out of when a large corporation tries to make itself look all independent and hip and stuff with a so-called irreverent site.
Did you look at the About Us page? "the team hustles for resources every day and is innovative, scrappy, and fun" Good night, does anyone really believe that within Microsoft there are real innovative ideas that don't simply involve entrenching the Microsoft brand? Not that there aren't smart people there, it's just that I have not seen many good ideas coming from there as of late (IE7, Vista, Zune, Media Player, Silverlight...need I go on?) And if this team does exist, then surely their ideas are too innovative and rogue for stodgy old Microsoft and outside of some pseudo-web2.0 site won't see the light of day.
Case in point, the only way to log into the site is with a Microsoft passport. Therefore, I don't know what else is there, but from the looks of things, not much. And isn't "web 2.0" supposed to be made with valid markup? Grumble grumble...
blah blah blah
I can assure you that not only is the duck imagery NOT the logo for Popfly but that any resemblance to "Tux" is completely coincidental. Me thinks the Tux fans are a bit paranoid. The duck image is just a photo that the team thought was a fun way to illustrate how people can express themselves by doing whatever they want with Popfly...get it? The one duck has a style unique among the others? It's just a ducky picture! Me thinks the Tux fans are perhaps a bit paranoid.
I was going to try that popfly service this morning and when the passport login showed it was going to route to a weird .ms ccTLD, I thought, no way, this has to be some kind of scam, someone has hacked passport to send them passwords...
When you use some country domain that's not really the country you're in, put the real country name after the postal mailing addresses on your web site. Wrong country domains screw up systems that are trying to locate your business for local search purposes. If your domain is under ".WS" (Western Samoa) or ".TO" (Tonga), you may be mapped into the middle of the Pacific Ocean. (There are Tongan web sites in ".TO". Admittedly, ".TV" is unlikely to lead to a real web site in Tuvalu, and does tend to be handled as a special case.)
nudewebca.ms
of 2 Letter country code TLD's, if major corporations get them, and the US doesn't use the .us domain. Too bad it's too late for a whole TLD overhaul.
Rhymes that keep their secrets will unfold behind the clouds.There upon the rainbow is the answer to a neverending story
IONLYUSEWINDOWSINV.MS
I like music
How long before rectu.ms points to goatse?
Crumb's Corollary: Never bring a knife to a bun fight.
Adium has a cute duck logo. If anything, Popfly's logo, being a duck, should be compared to Adium's.
... yeah, all of that resemblence thing is just flaimbait.
But uh
somehow apple.mus.com and apple.comp.com remind me of usenet newsgroups...... Are we moving forwards or backwards here? Which way should we be moving? Did usenet have a better idea than the web, in organizational terms?
Waffles rock.
Does this mean that we can look forward to most of Microsoft disappearing under a volcanic erruption sometime soon?
Yes, next question.
Don't confuse DNS with the Web.
Both DNS and Usenet have a hierarchal organization. My point was that the granularity of namespaces provided by DNS is less than the granularity provided by trademarks.
Also, Usenet is neither behind nor in front of the Web. They are different applications, and both are still quite useful.
The screencast shows live object/entity linking through a bloated RIA interface that probably needs a 3 GHz CPU and a 400$ GFX card to render properly. Let alone an MS operating system and their bloated, insecure, barely beta and closed-source proprietary silverthingie stuff.
The rotating entitiy cubes are pointless, anoying and distracting and are probably just there to hide the fact that we are basically looking at a RIA case tool with a restricted featureset. Everybody knows that things are going this way, but I doubt MS will get all things right to capture a larger audience and developer base.
Meanwhile I'm sticking with Laszlo for true cross-plattform RIA developement. After all even Adobe Flex is scrambling to catch up with them. And Laszlo went completely open source way before anybody else.
We suffer more in our imagination than in reality. - Seneca
Most pop flies are caught and result in the batter being out. In fact, when the Infield Fly Rule is invoked, it's an automatic out. Fitting.