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Microsoft switches two gTLDs from GoDaddy to Nominet

Kevin Murphy, September 2, 2024, 14:11:58 (UTC), Domain Registries

Microsoft has moved two of its branded gTLDs from GoDaddy’s registry back-end to Nominet’s.

Records show that .skype and .office both recently made the switch.

Microsoft had already moved six TLDs — .azure, .bing, .hotmail, .microsoft, .windows and .xbox — from Verisign to Nominet about a year ago, and .skype and .office mean its whole collection is now on Nominet’s service.

While .office isn’t technically a dot-brand because it does not have a Spec13 exemption in its ICANN contract, it is in use — you can log in to your email and other services, at least for now, via www.office.

.skype, meanwhile, has a handful of domains that work as redirects to skype.com.

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Comments (3)

  1. shop.web-designs.net says:

    http://Www.office looking like a typo without dotcom
    New gtlds are really scam tlds

    Microsoft should create your own registrar for better protection their assets and data

    • Rubens Kuhl says:

      I thought hyphenated domains were scam…

    • Dan says:

      They already have -> IANA #1330 Microsoft Corporation

      Also a registrar is not the same as a registry platform. It doesn’t much sense for them to bother building a registry and/or registrar platform which is compliant, when they can buy one off the shelf cheaply and have someone else maintain it and pay developers, policy people et el.

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