Tue, Jul 03, 2012 | 12:30 BST
Domain drain: Microsoft secures “Xbox 8″ rights
As noted by Fusible, Microsoft has won two disputes filed in May with the National Arbitration Forum over a batch of Xbox-related domains, including XboxPhone.com, XboxTablet.com, XboxLiveTV.com, XboxCompanion.com, Xbox8.us and Xbox8.org.
The Xbox8 domains are leading to speculation that it may be the name of the next Xbox. Microsoft took them back from a China resident named “Cheng Juan”.
Some basic checking shows that Microsoft doesn’t own Xbox8.co.uk – “Zuo Pan” has it – and that at least three straight Xbox8 domains are still available.
Which kind of suggests there’s something not right about this.
If you fancied a go on XboxEight domains, there’s tons of them. Well, there’s a few less now. We just bought xboxeight.co.uk and xboxeight.net, just in case.
21 comments
#1
locus2k1
03/07/12, 12:19 pm
Domain Squatting – the “Digital Hobos” of the 21st century lol
#2
Patrick Garratt
03/07/12, 12:20 pm
I’m already ordering a pool for the garden. Nothing can possibly go wrong.
#3
G1GAHURTZ
03/07/12, 12:27 pm
It’s for the eight copies of games that are sold for Xbox for every single copy sold on PS3, no?
#4
SurplusGamer
03/07/12, 12:28 pm
There has already been a rumour that the Xbox would be called the Xbox Infinity, right? 8 sort of looks like the infinity symbol on its side, so perhaps THAT is where they are going with this.
#5
Colin Gallacher
03/07/12, 12:29 pm
http://www.xboxelectricboogaloo.co.uk costs £4.99 for a year. Outside chance?
#6
G1GAHURTZ
03/07/12, 12:30 pm
^ LOL!
#7
Logic Incarnate
03/07/12, 12:35 pm
So the next Xbox will be called the “Xbox Infinite”?
#8
Patrick Garratt
03/07/12, 12:35 pm
@5 – Do it. WHO KNOWS?
#9
G1GAHURTZ
03/07/12, 12:42 pm
@7:
Maybe… And then the one after that, “Xbox Infinite +1″.
#10
Maximum Payne
03/07/12, 12:51 pm
@4 And also , just like 360 name which mean whole specter of possibility and connections. So yea Infinity sounds right.
#11
SurplusGamer
03/07/12, 12:54 pm
@9 Actually I was thinking Sony could call their next one “Playstation Infinity + 1″
#12
YoungZer0
03/07/12, 12:55 pm
http://youtu.be/PZe9_LWlOtM
#13
ManuOtaku
03/07/12, 1:02 pm
I hope it is not called infinite that would be a big irony, if the allways connected issue ends up being true, thats not infinite gameplay for me.
#14
mad1723
03/07/12, 1:04 pm
I’m so reserving XboxHate.com
#15
Logic Incarnate
03/07/12, 1:53 pm
As a super crazy thought, with the increase in streaming (and Sony purchasing Gaikai): Perhaps Microsoft’s next pitch will be “You will never need to purchase another console again”. With streaming providing “Infinite” possibilities.
#16
OrbitMonkey
03/07/12, 2:11 pm
^ That was their plan according to that 52 page document that was leaked last month.
#17
Joe Musashi
03/07/12, 2:16 pm
I would have thought this domain to be more about the xbl integration/branding with the forthcoming Windows 8.
But it’s most likely a matter of securing domain(s) with “xbox” in them against cybersquatters than anything meaningful.
JM
#18
treborr
03/07/12, 8:20 pm
@9 Haha, surely its Xbox Infinity and Beyond?
#19
Ireland Michael
03/07/12, 8:28 pm
The problem with “a console that you never need to upgrade again” is that once the console reaches saturation point (which neither of the current two consoles have come even close to doing yet), you’re borked.
And must people won’t want always-online, solely streamed media anyway. The public Internet infastructure isn’t even close to being able to support that, and people will still want some sort of tangible connection to the content they own.
#20
OrbitMonkey
03/07/12, 9:20 pm
^ Maybe maybe not. Music downloads are doing a roaring trade and I don’t hear many people complaining about not owning the cd case… The future of constant streaming my be far off, but the next steps will be games going download only and stored on harddrive.
#21
Ireland Michael
03/07/12, 9:31 pm
@20 The different with a media player is that it’s still a physical device, and its media is stored *on* it. iTunes music can be downloaded onto your PC, and can be stored and backed up on other storage mediums.
A fully digitally enabled device with instant day-one digital downloads is great. I think that’s exactly where console hardware will be heading. I’m not arguing against that in the slightest. What I’m arguing against is this bullshit belief that we’re all going to end up with consoles and PC completely removed from hardware dependencies with everything being streamed from “the cloud”. It just isn’t going to happen.