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Old Feb 22, 2019 | 7:39 am
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Originally Posted by Zorak
And yet, Delta does own skymiles.com and it redirects to delta.com. UA has mileageplus.com. I used to type spg.com all the time because it was shorter

Saying "the name is X so all we need is X.com" is too narrow for reasons of branding, anti-phishing, etc as mentioned earlier.
Right, I don't disagree with that. Just saying that maybe in their cost-benefit analysis buying that domain wasn't worth the cost to Marriott. Just another potential reason, and I make no judgment on whether or not they should purchase the rights for security purposes. Certainly Marriott has a history of making some poor IT decisions over my 12+ years as an elite customer.
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