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Has nothing to do with the article, but what is go.com and why are some websites hosted as a subdomain of go.com..? I don't get why anyone would want to do tha

• swampthinker 9y ago
  It's Disney. Probably their own implementation of AMP.(Separate page that loads much faster for mobile sites. Why they implemented it this way? Beats me.
  • gowld 9y ago
    go.com is over a decade older than AMP.
    • addicted 9y ago
      go.com may be a decade older than google!
      • btian 9y ago
        No. Same age as Google.
    • swampthinker 9y ago
      I know that go.com is older than that. I'm talking about what Disney is currently using it for.
• hiharryhere 9y ago
  Disney own it. It's a hangover from the late 90s dot-com era, when portals were the hotness. I'm guessing lots of people have it as their default homepage from the old days so they keep it running.
  • nkkollaw 9y ago
    Yes, I know that much, but why would a major site not redirect to a regular .com domain?
• et-al 9y ago
  Go.com was a portal by Infoseek--one of those search engines prior to Google's dominance. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com
• macintux 9y ago
  ESPN was, for the longest time, espn.go.com.