Microsoft Buys 8 Search Engine Optimization Domain Names

[the_poet]

Microsoft has purchased eight domain names related to search engine optimization (SEO). I am not quite sure about the reasoning behind this move by Microsoft, the owner of the Bing.com search engine. There could be a few reasons, the most logical being brand and trademark protection, as I do not suspect that Microsoft is going to go into the search engine optimization business anytime soon. Read more...

All crappy domains if you ask me. Neither one is .com.

 

[LeoV]

it seems they try to launch a seo optimization formula, which is different from Google.

 

[mattste]

Isn't Bing a registered trademark? couldn't have Microsoft just "taken" the domains?

 

[Kate]

I think we are talking about fresh regs here.

 

[Smiler]

He didn't really name every single one of the 49 domains that Microsoft purchased. But I think that Microsoft just want to play it safe to prevent anyone from registering those domain later in the future.