That's not a conflicting message. That's poor reporting combined with an attempt to imply drama that anyone familiar in the least with domains can see is highly unlikely.

Edit: The reporting is about this good: "man in valet jacket seen driving car he doesn't own to hotel entrance. Possible theft?"

And yet, we still put up the techcrunch articles.

Their "source" was a random tweet from someone with no relation to the situation. They should be embarrassed. I'm going to tweet that Microsoft is switching to Linux to help them with their next article.