Microsoft has purchased the domain corp.com. First reported by security researcher Brian Krebs, the company confirmed the purchase on Tuesday but didn’t say how much it had paid to acquire the domain.
In earlier versions of Windows, the default domain name suggestion for admins setting up the company’s Active Directory service was “corp.” The issue here was two-fold. First, Microsoft tied the default suggestion to a real address (the current best practice is to direct people to example.com or example.org). Second, a lot of admins just went with the default suggestion instead of changing the setting.
“To help in keeping systems protected we encourage customers to practice safe security habits when planning for internal domain and network names,” a Microsoft spokesperson told ZDNet‘s Mary Jo Foley. “We released a security advisory in June of 2009 and a security update that helps keep customers safe. In our ongoing commitment to customer security, we also acquired the corp.com domain.”
