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January 20, 2004
Microsoft continues to press its case against a 17-year-old Canadian high school student named Mike Rowe because his web site is mikerowesoft.com and he refused their offer of $10. Ten dollars! I know it sounds cheap, but you have to remember that these are ten American dollars. You have to sympathize with Microsoft: Tons of people are going to end up on Rowe's site by mistake simply because they typed every letter after the "i" wrong. By the way, I just registered www.mykrowzoft.com. (I would have taken mykrowsoft.com, but someone in Hawaii already owns it.) Bring it on! Posted
by D. Weinberger at January 20, 2004 12:57 PM
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http://mycrowesoft.com/ is actually being used.
Nice.
I wonder why MS picked the kid to go after? I mean, he has at least some claim to the name.
Posted by: Joe Grossberg | January 20, 2004 01:21 PM
I wonder how my friend Marco would fare with Marcosoft.com
Posted by: Steve Yost | January 20, 2004 01:33 PM
Everyone needs to keep in mind that we Canadians are not that quick, and could possibly confuse "mikerowesoft" with "microsoft". This is primarily due the fact that with 2 official languages, we never really know what anyone is trying to say...
Posted by: Larry Borsato | January 20, 2004 06:41 PM
MyCrowSoft.com is also registered and being used by a speculator.
MyKrowSoft.com is taken
MykeRoweSoft.com is available (as I type this :-))
Though not MykeRowSoft.com
Posted by: Seth Finkelstein | January 21, 2004 05:53 AM
[quote=http://mycrowesoft.com/]
January 19/2004 :: Wow.
Wow, this is amazing. My site this morning went down because of the massive amounts of visitors coming to my site. 250000 to be exact. My host couldn't handle the bandwidth so he was forced to shut it it down.
[/quote]
:))))
Posted by: sketch | January 21, 2004 10:32 AM
Microsoft must protect domaiinames against domain squatters. Domain squattering is poor
Posted by: Ike Chambers | January 22, 2004 08:49 AM
Mike Rowe
Is No
MikeRoweSofty
T-Shirt at:
http://www.zazzle.com/products/gallery/browse_results.asp?general%5Fcategory%5Fid=103053432258371047
Posted by: occy2004 | January 30, 2004 01:53 PM