Belgians sell coveted office.com domain to Microsoft
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The domain, which was previously registered to the ContactOffice Group, a company that hosts an online productivity and collaboration suite, was transferred to Microsofts control on Tuesday, searches of WHOIS revealed. Office.com currently presents a message from ContactOffice telling its users of a domain change to office.contactoffice.com, a secondary address that the European firm has had in its possession since 1999. "As of Friday, July 31, 2009, Office.com will no longer be available," said Tom Graham, a ContactOffice employee, in the message still live on the site. ContactOffice did not respond to emails asking it to confirm the sale of the site; Microsoft was not available for comment early on Thursday. Microsoft touted Office Web last month, promising that consumers would be able to access the scaled-down applications for free.
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