Microsoft does not own LiveSearch domain name to search business bottleneck

Beijing time May 25 Evening news, according to foreign media reports, because Microsoft does not own livesearch.com domain name, resulting in the company's search market share is difficult to break, so Microsoft may consider replacing the search engine name. According to the source, the livesearch.com domain name is the actual owner of Thelles Touloc (Tyler tullock) in Washington state, the United States, said he has rejected several quotes on the site, of which the latest offer was 6 months ago, when an agency bid to buy the domain name 40,000 dollars, But he asked for 80,000 dollars. The agency then issued a high price of 200,000 dollars, but asked Saysturok to reply within a day. Figure Locke says he finally turned down the offer.　　Microsoft has yet to confirm whether the company or its agents are trying to buy the domain name. It is reported that Saysturok had the domain name 13 years ago when he ran a network marketing company called Localseek Advertising. Figure Locke uses livesearch.com and other domain names to advertise its services, including the swap business.　　Microsoft launched the Live Search search engine in 2006 with its domain name live.com. At present, Saysturok operates 7 music schools in the Seattle area and posted Google ads on livesearch.com, saying, "It gives me a lot of money to send all of Microsoft's business to Google."　　But Saysturok did not disclose the specific number of profits on the site. Microsoft plans to launch a new version of live Search this week and may be brand new, the Wall Street Journal reported. For at least three years he has been thinking about the new concept of livesearch.com, and has considered legal disputes, according to Locke. But he said, "if Microsoft abandons this name, I will continue to use it." "(Chi Wei)