Microsoft takes office.com

[Terrains]

Microsoft grabs 'office.com' domain

Microsoft has acquired the office.com domain from a Brussels-based company, according to searches of Internet registration records.

The domain, which was previously registered to the ContactOffice Group, a company that hosts an online productivity and collaboration suite, was transferred to Microsoft's control on Tuesday, searches of WHOIS revealed.

 

[bill786]

they got too much money to throw

 

[4u-domains]

Biggest ever payday for that company, I imaghine..

 

[cwinhall]

Wonder how much. I'm betting this would be pretty high up the list on dnjournal's sales list.

 

[1901gt]

About time too. I predict a few million dollars. :D

 

[HuntingMoon]

i guess $10mil to $20mil. we shall see..

 

[lzy]

Long overdue acquisition, hope M$ made it worth it for the previous owner.

 

[thebutler]

I'd guess about...

I'm guessing here but if the company selling knew MSN was involved it might change the price. But I'd guess in the 3million range.

 

[MicroGuy]

The page title (displayed in browser head) at OFFICE.COM contains a misspelling. Bill Gates has been notified. :gl:

 

[leonhang]

It is good that Microsoft did that action, I just hope that the previous owner get the same benefits as well.

 

[Wickedd00]

Yeah microsoft made a good step !
Cheers,
- Wickedd00

 

[Jaco]

This is a case of a highly valuable domain name going to the 'best case scenario' end user.
ContactOffice Group got paid, that's for sure.

 

[labrocca]

My guess is $10 million or more. It's easily worth it for MS.

Anyone still want to doubt the power of .com?

 

[thewebhostingdir]

Guys,

We can not predict an exact amount but I can tell you that the deal would be in Millions of dollars.

 

[jgalty]

must be nice to have a big bucket full of cash

 

[SiberForum]

Their income reduced. In any case that seems they have enough money to spread around

 

[the_poet]

IMHO the name has been paid in the 2M range.

 

[zoogo]

The truth is we have absolutely no real insight into how much the domain was sold for..

Good for them, nice reporting.

 

[namewaiter]

who knows how long they could have been trying to land it ... i would say 10M+ if they have been interested for some time