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Microsoft acquires Office.com domain
Up until recently, the domain belonged to ContactOffice. It looks like ContactOffice began transferring its service to a new web site in June, so the acquisition has probably been in the works for a little while, but the transfer officially went through on August 4th.
Single-word domain names like Office.com don't come cheap. But the move was probably a smart one on Microsoft's part. The company's current homepage for MS Office is office.microsoft.com, which isn't quite as easy to remember.
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seth harris said 1:27PM on 8-06-2009
wonder how much they paid
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Robin Wauters said 2:07PM on 8-06-2009
Just a fyi, I explain in this post that the domain name wasn't actually purchased from ContactOffice.
http://www.techcrunch.com/2009/08/06/confirmed-microsoft-is-the-new-owner-of-officecom/
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