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The article itself includes a link [0] to yet another gTLD that I guess Google owns now, .gle . I have never seen this gTLD used before and had to double-check
by philsnow 3y ago
The article itself includes a link [0] to yet another gTLD that I guess Google owns now, .gle . I have never seen this gTLD used before and had to double-check that the site I was looking at was indeed on the legit blog.google domain.
A while back there used to be advice from security folks to use a consistent set of domains for all communication from your company, so that when attackers/scammers/spammers try to impersonate your domains, users are more suspicious. A partial list of Google's gTLDs from https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc https://ntldstats.com/registry/Charleston-Road-Registry-Inc :
.goog
.google
.gle
.youtube
.gmail
.android
.chrome
.gbiz
I don't know how many of these are being used to host user-facing sites like [0], but they also have used at least g.co as a URL shortening service.
When you scatter-shot official communication like this, it trains users to believe that your comms can and will come from just about anywhere.
[0] https://goo.gle/resultsaboutyou https://goo.gle/resultsaboutyou
- ldoughty 3y agoI agree on the .goog, .gle, etc.. but not on Android, YouTube, Gmail.... If companies consolidated at that level, you'd get notified by pepsi for a recall of tostitos... Or Aquafina bottled water. I think if the general public can identify it as a specific product line, it's fine to have that as a communication domain (and that domain should be the source of news for that product)