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Surface.com Redirects To MS Surface Product Page

June 19, 2012 by Michele Neylon

Microsoft has had control of the domain surface.com since 2007 according to Hosterstats.

I’ve no idea what, if anything, they were doing with it before now, but it’s now being used as the URL in ads for the new Microsoft Surface tablet device:

It’ll redirect you to the product page here

 

Filed Under: microsoft Tagged With: microsoft, Microsoft Corporation, Microsoft Surface

About Michele Neylon

Michele is founder and managing director of Irish domain registrar and hosting company Blacknight. Michele has been deeply involved in domain and internet policy discussions for more than a decade.
He also co-hosts the Technology.ie podcast.

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  1. Gabriel says

    June 19, 2012 at 3:21 pm

    They used it for this:

    http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/pixelsense/purchaseprocess.aspx

    but it hadn’t won over market by storm so they rebranded it as it is now.

    • Michele Neylon says

      June 20, 2012 at 2:38 am

      Thanks – I wasn’t aware of it 🙂

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