Microsoft 'Bing' Would Bring New Life to Old Domain

26.05.2009

By 2006, the Bing notification device had buzzed out of existence and bing.com had gone back to being a parked domain. Toward the end of that year, though, someone else snatched up the domain and tried to put the "cha-ching" back into Bing.

"Bing is a new project started by Eric Hahn and funded by Benchmark Capital and Matrix Partners," the revamped bing.com proclaimed. "We're building a B2B CRM pen-computing AI P2P groupware product with great SMB ROI. No, not really (we're still in stealth mode)."

Within a couple of months, bing.com had morphed into a portal for a mail service known as "EasyMail." Billed as a "new era in postal mail," the next-generation bing.com allowed Aussies to electronically send documents into a "Bing post office," which would print and fold the papers, place them in an envelope, then send them out via the postal service. That site existed in some form at bing.com through at least the beginning of 2008. What appears to be the same company is still using the "Bing" name, though now operating at the domain .