Microsoft registers domain names for future versions of Internet Explorer.
How many versions of Internet Explorer, Microsoft’s market-leading web browser, will we see?
Just in case, Microsoft has registered a handful of domain names up to version number 13.
Through its domain name management company, Microsoft recently registered InternetExplorer12.com and InternetExplorer13.com. It also registered ie12beta.com and ie13beta.com.
Microsoft is a slow learner. InternetExplorer8.com is a parked domain. A visit to InternetExplorer9.com won’t bring you to an official Microsoft site; instead you’ll find a splog scraping the latest IE 9 news. The company also doesn’t own InternetExplorer10.com.
Preemptively registering these domains is smart business. But how far do you take it? Why stop at InternetExplorer13.com? Unless the company plans a name change it might as well pick up InternetExplorer14.com for $8 today.
Whoops. It might already be too late.
>>> Domainers Gate says
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is its 13th version the IE’s “2012”? 🙂
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