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11-22-2006, 07:05

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Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

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Microsoft has become an ICANN-accredited domain registrar, giving it the ability to sell domains directly to its customers. Microsoft has been reselling domain names from Melbourne IT, a registrar based in Australia that also provides wholesale domains to Yahoo and other hosting providers.

Microsoft's could use its new status to sell domain names for its Office Live small business hosting service, which is scheduled to come out of beta on Nov. 15 and provides a free domain name with each account. This would probably save Microsoft money on each domain sold, as wholesalers like Melbourne IT typically charge a small mark-up over the base fees from the central registry.

But not all companies that gain ICANN accreditation use it to sell their own domains. Google became a registrar last year but has yet to sell domain names to the public, preferring to use its status to focus on reducing spammy domains from its search results. Amazon.com also has ICANN accreditation, but has not pursued retail domain sales.

Source: http://news.netcraft.com/archives/2..._registrar.html

Do you think Microsoft will sell the domain name registrations to public or not (like Google & Amazon)?

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12-02-2006, 12:30

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

I think they'll integrate it with their Office line of products to get individuals their own domain name or use it for search, as stated by the article.

12-07-2006, 05:15

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

I didn't know Microsoft provides hosting services. Something must be left to chance...

12-16-2006, 15:26

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I would hate to get a domain from them. Or get one with hosting and make it an anti-microsoft site

12-16-2006, 20:55

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

Well this is bad. Another thing they are bound to mess up. If they go for a low price (I don't think they will...) but if they do, a nice domain price war will begin

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12-20-2006, 17:43

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

Interesting, although I know I sure as hell am not going to register any domains with them.

02-03-2007, 12:06

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

me too i am not going to buy any domains from them at all

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02-07-2007, 06:32

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

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Originally Posted by BoxedHosting

I would hate to get a domain from them. Or get one with hosting and make it an anti-microsoft site

Lol...I would not buy a domain from Microsoft either!

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02-23-2007, 14:34

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Re: Microsoft Approved as ICANN Registrar

Microsoft provided domain name for free publicly and i registered two domain names (TLD) from them.. So, as they are now ICANN approved registrar then I can say that they will provide that registration with the hosting pacakge that i signed up.. from their own panel (might be or might not be).

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