Microsoft registers dirty names related to its new Generation App.
Microsoft is releasing its Generation App (Or Gen App), which is a suite of tools to help you build an app for Microsoft platforms within 30 days.
The web sites for the initiative are 30tolaunch.com and GenerationApp.com.
The company isn’t taking any chances, snatching up lots of typos of GenerationApp.com including generatonapp.com and generat6ionapp.com. These two and many other domains are registered in Microsoft’s name.
But Microsoft turned to brand protection company Mark Monitor to help it register all of the negative domain names someone could think of to blast the initiative. Here’s a list of domains Microsoft registered via Mark Monitor and its DNStination subsidiary rather than its own credentials:
[email protected]
[email protected]
genappbites.com
genappblows.com
genappporn.com
genappsucks.com
genappsux.com
genappxxx.com
generationappbites.com
generationappblows.com
generationappsucks.com
generationappxxx.com
(and yes, the @ is really ‘u’.)
Of course they don’t own GenApp.com or any other extension or any of these:
genappblog.com
genappdirectory.com
genappfan.com
genappfans.com
genappisgreat.com
genappp.com
genappstore.com
genappsupport.com
ilovegenapp.com
mygenapp.com
welovegenapp.com
Obviously they are preparing for GenApp to be a huge failure like many other Microsoft products before it.
Still waiting for Ballmer to F in “destroy” Google as he said a few years back.
Now Microsoft will be launching a tablet. Just too funny.
Meh I would do the same in their position whether I had faith in my product or not. Microsoft takes alot of flak for anything they release so it only makes sense to take some precautionary measures.