Microsoft has acquired the office.com domain from a Brussels-based company, according to searches of Internet registration records.
Office.com currently presents a message from ContactOffice telling its users of a domain change to office.contactoffice.com, a secondary address that the European firm has had in its possession since 1999.
"As of Friday, July 31, 2009, Office.com will no longer be available," said Tom Graham, a ContactOffice employee, in the message still live on the site. Also, if you use POP or IMAP with Office.com you will need to change your settings to pop.contactoffice.net and imap.contactoffice.net respectively," Graham added.
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