Will Microsoft Buy Edge.com and Will They File A UDRP on MicrosoftEdge.com ?

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Microsoft has a new browser that they are calling Microsoft Edge, Mike was talking with me and wondered aloud if they would go after Edge.com ? Three years ago there was an existing business on Chrome.com and Google decided to make them an offer and purchased the domain. Mike wrote about that here.

Now Edge.com is also an existing business and not sitting there parked or owned by a domain investor. The company Edge Systems LLC was founded in 1985.

From the homepage:

Founded in 1985, Edge Systems provides comprehensive Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Solutions to government and commercial customers. Using our IMEDGE family of imaging and document management products as a foundation, we provide the ability to manage a wide variety of electronic objects, including images, office documents, graphics, voice, video, e-mail, web content, and other information assets.  In essence, Edge provides a comprehensive information resource management system that improves productivity, efficiency and customer satisfaction while reducing ongoing IT maintenance efforts related to enterprise content management

The other interesting piece of the name puzzle is MicrosoftEdge.com, it was registered in January by someone in China who does not look to be affiliated with the company in anyway. UDRP in 10…9…8 ?

 

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Comments

  1. ty says

    These companies filing UDRPs are mind boggling, its funny how they are going after companies/individuals with .Coms yet there are hundreds of new extensions out yet they set their sites at the .Coms, many of these companies have become registrars in their own right, so obviously they can register their own extensions alone and let people who registered domains years ago(just like any other person had the right to)but didnt…these guys are worst that these patent trolls

    • Domain Shame says

      New gtlds have nothing to do with it some scumbag squatter has no rights to anything with Microsoft in it. people just can’t be this stupid.

  2. Joseph Peterson says

    Why do I hear no bold predictions about Microsoft basing its browser website on Edge.nTLD?

    This is the perfect test case for all those claims that nTLDs are the future. .COM apparently unobtainable. Numerous nTLD versions within reach.

    Or will that future always remain … in the future?

    It’s striking that even the loudest nTLD proponents don’t step forward to predict Edge.link or Edge.xyz or Edge.onl or Edge.top or Edge.digital or Edge.online as Microsoft’s ultimate choice.

    Am I arguing that .LINK and .DIGITAL have no value? Of course, I’m not. Sometimes they may be good secondary options.

    Am I suggesting that some registries lack the courage of their convictions? Yes, although I won’t name any names.

    What seems absolutely clear from this sound of crickets I’m hearing is that everybody – including each nTLD registry – perceives .COM as a foregone conclusion for Microsoft. If they disagree with that statement, let them step forward and predict which non-.COM TLD Microsoft will use. Predictions are much less forthcoming when refutation lurks right around the corner.

    Unfair? No. My point is that – no matter what people say about the “death of .COM” to promote their new gTLDs in public – we all know that .COM remains the first choice of global companies … even for their new projects that look toward the future … even when .COM is difficult to obtain and massively expensive (as Edge.com will be).

    Maybe Microsoft won’t buy Edge.com. Nevertheless, nobody is speculating about which TLD Microsoft will pick. That’s unanimous.

  3. SBasu says

    Microsoft registered “edgebrowser” though DotCom has been taken by “LV Meijer” on 25-01-2015. I got “edgebrowserapp” with me, anybody interested ?

  5. Ramahn says

    Well said Joseph! Com is such a standard when it comes to domains, even the ngtld guys default to it….it’s like breathing.

  6. Steven Sikes says

    What I’d recommend Microsoft:

    1) Get MicrosoftEdge.com via UDRP
    2) Use EdgeBrowser.com

    If Edge gains market share and becomes popular with users, buy Edge.com ( some will argue it would be better to buy edge.com now before it becomes popular, as the price will go up – I disagree).