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here is something that could mean a lot, or could mean nothing.
I'll tell you the story as it happened.
For personal reasons, I wanted a domain name that had biscuits as its name, and I have been searching for one.
the keyword worked, and I found that about 10 days ago, biscuits.info was dropping.
So, I 'pooled' it, went to auction (I had 5 auctions, I am pretty sure biscuits was there as well).
I lost the domain, and checked whois after, out of curiosity to see If I could buy the name from the person. (ok, I'll tell, we had a dog called biscuits, plural form, and wanted a site just to add photos of it for all the family).
Amazingly enough whois showed finally Microsoft as the owner!
THE Microsoft, with address, phone, Seattle etc...
today, yet again out of curiosity I checked whois for it and a different name came out.
I was already thinking that I am on to something (a new MS product???), so when I saw the name (just look at whois) I searched google placing the first name, last name, and microsoft'.
Amazingly enough there is a connection. The current person is in Australia it seems.
remember that for a few days, it showed MS as the full owner. If it is an upcoming product, then perhaps MS is using a person through a contract to hopld the name as to not alert the rest?
What am I getting at?
If you own a 'biscuit' domain, hold on to it, because it could be an important MS product soon.
Then again, it could be nothing, but the facts are strange...
Just thought I would share it here with my friends at DNF.
I'll tell you the story as it happened.
For personal reasons, I wanted a domain name that had biscuits as its name, and I have been searching for one.
the keyword worked, and I found that about 10 days ago, biscuits.info was dropping.
So, I 'pooled' it, went to auction (I had 5 auctions, I am pretty sure biscuits was there as well).
I lost the domain, and checked whois after, out of curiosity to see If I could buy the name from the person. (ok, I'll tell, we had a dog called biscuits, plural form, and wanted a site just to add photos of it for all the family).
Amazingly enough whois showed finally Microsoft as the owner!
THE Microsoft, with address, phone, Seattle etc...
today, yet again out of curiosity I checked whois for it and a different name came out.
I was already thinking that I am on to something (a new MS product???), so when I saw the name (just look at whois) I searched google placing the first name, last name, and microsoft'.
Amazingly enough there is a connection. The current person is in Australia it seems.
remember that for a few days, it showed MS as the full owner. If it is an upcoming product, then perhaps MS is using a person through a contract to hopld the name as to not alert the rest?
What am I getting at?
If you own a 'biscuit' domain, hold on to it, because it could be an important MS product soon.
Then again, it could be nothing, but the facts are strange...
Just thought I would share it here with my friends at DNF.
