{"id":434,"date":"2007-05-19T18:51:55","date_gmt":"2007-05-19T18:51:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/2007\/get-your-own-microsoft-domain-today\/"},"modified":"2013-08-26T18:16:27","modified_gmt":"2013-08-26T23:16:27","slug":"get-your-own-microsoft-domain-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/get-your-own-microsoft-domain-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Get Your Own .MS Domain Name Today!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Microsoft has started using .MS domains to power their web platforms! Luckily for you, .MS isn&#8217;t just for Microsoft and you can get your own .ms domain today &#8211; if you have $180 to spare!<\/strong>\n<\/p>\n<p><strong><\/strong>Yep, that&#8217;s right. Microsoft has gone&nbsp;Web 2.0&nbsp;and is now using &#8220;their own&#8221; gTLD to push Microsoft-powered web platforms to the next level. While browsing the new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fpq.biz\/?popfly.com\" rel=\"follow\">Popfly project<\/a>&nbsp;(which <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/forget-about-popfly\/\" rel=\"follow\">doesn&#8217;t run on Linux<\/a>), we were interested to find ourselves being redirected to &#8220;http:\/\/popfly.ms\/&#8221; leading us to wonder. Microsoft isn&#8217;t breaking any laws or circumventing any of the usual steps: .MS domain names are officially assigned to one of the last overseas British territories, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Montserrat\" rel=\"follow\">Montserrat<\/a>, named by Christopher Columbus back in 1493; but the .ms domain name is open to the public regardless of region or political affiliation.\n<\/p>\n<p>Just like some people are using .IT (intended for Italy and Italy alone) to power IT-related websites (as in <strong>I<\/strong>nformation <strong>T<\/strong>echnology, and not anything to do with Italy), Microsoft is using Montserrat&#8217;s TLD (and paying 180 USD a domain) to power their Web 2.0 creations.\n<\/p>\n<p>You can purchase your own .MS domain name <a href=\"http:\/\/www.101domain.com\/ms.htm\" rel=\"follow\">here<\/a>; and just for kicks, check out <a href=\"http:\/\/www.google.ms\/\" rel=\"follow\">http:\/\/google.ms\/<\/a> :D\n<\/p>\n<p>Funnily enough, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.microsoft.com\" rel=\"follow\">Microsoft.ms<\/a> doesn&#8217;t load, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.website-unavailable.com\/?wc=EWJsGw9mBhlGGxZwDhYCEx8=&amp;url=msn%2Ems\" rel=\"follow\">MSN.ms<\/a> doesn&#8217;t even exist. Interesting&#8230;<br \/>\n  \n<\/p>\n<p>How long before Microsoft sues to own the .MS tld and everything on it? (all your base are belong to us, anyone?)<br \/>\n  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Microsoft has started using .MS domains to power their web platforms! Luckily for you, .MS isn&#8217;t just for Microsoft and you can get your own .ms domain today &#8211; if you have $180 to spare! Yep, that&#8217;s right. Microsoft has &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/get-your-own-microsoft-domain-today\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[401,209,402,403],"class_list":["post-434","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-software","tag-ms","tag-domain-names","tag-domains","tag-tld"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4xDa-70","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=434"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2380,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/434\/revisions\/2380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=434"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=434"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/neosmart.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=434"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}