Microsoft registers domains for upcoming shopping days.
Black Friday is less than two weeks away, and Microsoft is busy registering domain names for the big day.
In recent days the company has registered a handful of domain names related to its Bing search engine and Black Friday and the following Cyber Monday.
Among the domains it has registered:
BingBlackFriday.com and .net
BingCyberMonday.com and .net
The domain names currently forward to the Bing search engine for the related query, e.g. “BingcyberMonday”.
I wouldn’t read too much into this forwarding, as Microsoft typically forwards its unused domains to the search engine.
That said, I’m curious what Microsoft is up to with these recent domain name registrations. Purely defensive, or will it use them for shopping promotions during the holidays?
lassy says
The real story is Kevin Ham’s blackfriday.com
http://blackfriday.com/company/about-us/
Pablo says
Sedo:
blackfridays.tv
blackfridaysale.tv
good ones as well
Web hosting says
So what they are going to do on Black Friday ?