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Microsoft takes control of Kumo.com domain – watch out for the Live Search rebrand | |
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| Time: 00:26 EST/05:26 GMT | News Source: LiveSide | Posted By: Kenneth van Surksum | ||
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A few months ago Mary Jo Foley got a tip about some new brand names that were being considered for Live Search. One of these, Kumo, jumped out at us due to the sheer scale of TLDs that had been acquired during 2008, as well as the corporate owner hiding anonymously behind the registrar. Incidentally, Kumo means “cloud” or “spider” in Japanese. Fast forward to this week and Microsoft suddenly showed its hand. Control of the Kumo.com domain was moved from the registrar to Microsoft, and is now pointing to an internal Microsoft test site (employees only). | ||
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