Microsoft promotes short domains

Posted on November 17th, 2007 by admin in Domain News | 6 Comments »

I recently blogged about Google buying g.cn to fight Baidu in the Chinese market. Following on from that, Microsoft is another large corporation to promote short domain names in that region.

They have recently purchased w.cn and 9.cn. The reason they are doing this is so that Chinese speakers, who use Chinese keyboards, do not have to replicate many english characters, only one.

I expect other sites to follow suite and purchase the other available ( if any are left ) short domain names in various tlds in the next few days.