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by Jason Bean on July 26th, 2006

How’d Microsoft let this one slip by? Wouldn’t you think they’d register pretty much any variation of a new project/application’s name?

It’s not what you’d expect.

Patrick
Jul 26, 2006 at 7:59 pm

I don’t know. I mean, right now it seems like a no brainer, but… it was registered in March of 1999. More than 7 years ago.
Robert Burdock
Jul 27, 2006 at 4:37 pm

If nothing else the Mozilla Foundation should be praised for such an incredible feat of forward thinking.
Patrick
Jul 28, 2006 at 7:32 am

It’s not owned by the Mozilla Foundation, either.

http://www.jeffwu.net/?p=250
Mimz
Jul 28, 2006 at 12:15 pm

This cracked me up a little…but I wonder who registered it? It’s quite a statement.
Milo Riano
Aug 4, 2006 at 3:15 am

I think it’s more of a prank move than a statement intended to raise eyebrows and increase it’s incoming links.

I don’t think Microsoft is going to let it slip by. Remember the college student named Mike Rowe who was threathened because his site was named MikeRoweSoft.com. Microsoft sent him hundreds of pages of legal action saying the services he offered somehow affected it’s frontpage branding. Duh. :)