Microsoft Office Live beta gets traffic spike
TechWeb | at | by Mike
Microsoft has seen more than a 50 percent spike in the number of users of Office Live beta in the last week, and at least one analyst said Thursday that's bad news for domain registrars.
Despite the name, Office Live has nothing to do with Microsoft's popular Office productivity suite. Instead, it's a Web site hosting service for small businesses that at its basic level is free and provides a domain name, design tools for building a site, five email accounts and traffic reports.
Since the waiting list for the service was dropped April 5, the number of domain names had jumped to 43,169 on April 12 from 28,623, according to Ipwalk.com, a statistical service for the Web operated by the Swedish company Ipwalk AB.