Microsoft grabs Office.com domain in Google Apps assault
Microsoft has registered a new domain in an effort to retain Office customers who might be considering a shift online to Google Apps. The company grabbed the office.com domain earlier this week. It had previously been farmed out to the Belgium-based ContactOffice Group that licensed the site name from a third-party under a …
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Salmon Days
Does anyone (at el reg) have the salmon days complete set - they were so funny, would be great to see them all again. Surely they'd be top hitting on youtube.
These need to be posted up somewhere!
May I be the first...
to request that the Register start remaking Salmondays again?
I'd pay for a NewCorp style Subscription for that!!
That is all!
What price
By selling up, aren't they basically having to change the name of their whole company.
I wonder if this is something prople consider when naming a company the same as thier website (with the .com bit at the end)?
Toss a Coin?!...
When I had to choose the name of my business I had two options, one had it's .com & .co.uk available, the other didn't.
Simple in the end!
@Michael
no, you may not be
@ the world in general: as FZ said, fuck you all
ta ta for now and thanks for all the fish, I'm going to keep on swimming and laughing at you
Who is going to grab documents.com?
.. from Palo Alto research centre, who are not using it right now.
Which would be a much more meaningful name. Or don't people believe in "name follows function" any more?
Name following function?
Not any more. We have been too long with Japanese(?) cultural influence. Some common company name formulas include:
[Size Adverb] + [Fruit Type] = Example: www.bigpineapple.com.au
[Colo(u)r Name] + [Animal Name or Type] = Example: www.bluerhino.com
[Energy Type] + [Natural Phenomenon] = Example: www.electric-cloud.com
You may add others as you see fit.
Google Apps?
"Office customers who might be considering a shift online to Google Apps"
What about Symphony, OpenOffice, StarOffice, etc? "Cloud" software is a threat to all desktop software, luckily not a very scary one as yet. I would guess that MS is reacting at least as much to IBM joining the office fray, as they are to Google. IMHO.
Terry Ellis
I'm figuring that if Microsoft want to buy office.com from me, I'll retire!
Office 2010 Technical Preview
Not sure what you mean by not available to testers yet..??
I got my offer to install it on 5th August and accepted.
Re: Name following function?
You forgot:
[Body Part] + [Electrical Buzzword] = Example: www.uranushertz.com
(no, I'm not joking. Another Dilbert joke spreads to reality.)
Wonder how much it sold for?
That domain name is incredibly prime online real estate, right up there with business.com and other major ones.
Throw in Microsoft as the buyer and things could have got very pricy indeed.
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