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
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Kinect.com Now Owned By Microsoft
A couple of domain industry bloggers were speculating about Microsoft and the domain kinect.com According to WHOIS the domain is now registered via corporate registrar MarkMonitor and lists Microsoft as the registrant: Domain Administrator Microsoft Corporation One Microsoft Way Redmond WA 98052 US domains@microsoft.com +1.4258828080 Fax: +1.4259367329 Domain Name: kinect.com Registrar Name:… Continue reading Kinect.com Now Owned By Microsoft
MSN Blocking .info?
According to recent reports Microsoft’s MSN messenger is blocking URLs using the .info extension It seems that this change only happened in the last couple of days. Has Affilias been made aware of this change? Is it an anti-phishing / anti-spam measure? Full story here