Microsoft enters domain name registration game - DNForum - Domain Sales, Domain Forum, Domain Appraisals, Domain Registrars

**PalmBeach** · 07-16-2007, 10:19 AM

http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/...e=searchresult

Last week, the company was added to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) list of accredited domain name registrars, according to domain name service provider Dot and Co. This means that Microsoft can now add new top-level domains to the databases used by computers on the Internet.

**hugegrowth** · 07-16-2007, 10:46 AM

It's amazing to think Microsoft is doing this in 2007 - you'd think they'd have done this 10 years ago.

**zangief** · 07-16-2007, 03:02 PM

Maybe they are not going to register domains to public , imo their plan is to use the data like google does for their search engine. (of course we are not sure about google using this data but so does microsoft