Microsoft acquires Office.com domain

by Brad Linder on August 6, 2009 at 12:00 PM

Office.com registration
Microsoft has already announced plans to launch an online version of Office that will compete with Google Docs, Zoho Office, and other online office applications. And now we have a pretty good idea of where it will be hosted. Microsoft acquired the Office.com internet domain this week.

Up until recently, the domain belonged to ContactOffice. It looks like ContactOffice began transferring its service to a new web site in June, so the acquisition has probably been in the works for a little while, but the transfer officially went through on August 4th.

Single-word domain names like Office.com don't come cheap. But the move was probably a smart one on Microsoft's part. The company's current homepage for MS Office is office.microsoft.com, which isn't quite as easy to remember.

Tags: microsoft-office, office, office.com