General Microsoft registers Good Scientist domain names.

[Wargasm]

Like a forum regular on TH once said :"It's MS, they never make much sense".
I guess the below domain name registrations can be labeled as such.

goodscientist.com
goodscientist.net
goodscientists.com
goodscientists.net
napacloudapp.com
napacloudapp.net
programamais.com

It couldbe related to some old game studio.
Good Science Studio used tobe an American video game developer owned by Microsoft Studios. It was established in 2009 to develop Xbox 360 games for the Kinect sensor. The company was originally called SpawnPoint.
So from that point of view the domain registrations couldbe purely defensive.

We'll found out in the future i guess.

The WHOIS info :

Registrant:
Domain Administrator
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
US
@microsoft.com +1.4258828080 Fax: +1.4259367329

Domain Name: goodscientist.com

Registrar Name: Markmonitor.com
Registrar Whois: whois.markmonitor.com
Registrar Homepage: http://www.markmonitor.com

Administrative Contact:
Domain Administrator
Microsoft Corporation
One Microsoft Way
Redmond WA 98052
US

Dreamworks/Sony/Fox registered a bunch of domain names also.
You can find the list at ccTLD.

 

[FireCat]

Oh dear.. Domain Apocalypse, the beginning eh?

 

[Wargasm]

doubt it
This was rather intresting though : http://rogue.su/did-discovery-channel-buy-the-domain-name-velocity-com/
i think but i am not sure that velocity.com costed the discovery channel alot of money .
I reached out to the former owner to see if i could get a confirmation and a price. We'll see.

 

[xPass]

They just keep buying and buying, then abandoning it...
I wonder when the time where domain names run out would come...

 

[Wargasm]

That's not gonna happen.
There are currently 750 different domain extensions (countries included).
Over a few weeks ICANN starts accepting the first round of new gTLD (generic top level domains) like .new , .next , .paris, .nyc etc etc.
Around 2015-2016 we should have 3600 domain extensions to choose from.

Google is no stranger to register ccTLD's like http://ro.me

 

[Lobster]

That's not gonna happen.
There are currently 750 different domain extensions (countries included).
Over a few weeks ICANN starts accepting the first round of new gTLD (generic top level domains) like .new , .next , .paris, .nyc etc etc.
Around 2015-2016 we should have 3600 domain extensions to choose from.

Google is no stranger to register ccTLD's like http://ro.me

Is there a way to register custom extensions? I honestly have no clue how dns works beyond turning a string into an ip address and vice versa. I probably have that part wrong as well.

 

[xPass]

Is there a way to register custom extensions? I honestly have no clue how dns works beyond turning a string into an ip address and vice versa. I probably have that part wrong as well.

^ This. Same here.

 

[UndeadDragon]

Is there a way to register custom extensions? I honestly have no clue how dns works beyond turning a string into an ip address and vice versa. I probably have that part wrong as well.

http://newgtlds.icann.org/about

 

[Wargasm]

UD is spot on.
That''s the costly solution though. Bring around 500k

http://www.mindsandmachines.com/ is alot cheaper and easier.