] Desler said Microsoft would cover Mike's costs of
] changing to a new Web site and redirecting traffic from
] the old site. Microsoft also had agreed to help the teen
] get Microsoft certification training and other gifts,
] including an Xbox game console, he said, and has invited
] Mike to a technology festival in March at the
] corporation's headquarters in suburban Redmond.

While I'm sure people will say he should have never given up the domain, fight the monopoly and all the jazz he hmade the right choice. Considering he's 17 and MikeRoweSoft is a pretty shitty name for a web design firm, he is getting more out of this than the 15 seconds of Intenet fame and keeping his domain name would have ever brought him

Mike Rowe sells his domain to Microsoft