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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.google

jsheard 2y ago
Though Google still doesn't use .google for much of anything a decade after establishing it, because it's confusing for normal users. Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one.
- mr_mitm 2y ago
  gl is greenland
  - jsheard 2y ago
    Oops, so it is. Not sure how I got that mixed up.
- arp242 2y ago
  I've seen blog.google a few times. Things like "google.com" and "gmail.com" are established brands; switching that to "search.google" or "gmail.google" isn't really going to improve anything for anyone. I guess it's kinda cute for blog.google, but other than that it's pretty useless. A bunch of companies bought these brand TLDs only to never use it and then abandon them a few years later. Probably a "zomg this is a new internets thing and if we don't do all the new internets things it we'll be left behind on the internets, and we can't be left behind on in the internets!!!11"-type affair. Here's a list: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreement-termination-2015-10-09-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreemen...
  - hypeatei 2y ago
    gmail.google also doesn't make sense "Google mail dot Google" mail.google would be better.
    - seanw444 2y ago
      And then people would be confused at how it's not an incomplete URL, because mail.google.com exists.
- saghm 2y ago
  > Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one. Not for long https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/ https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li...
  - breakingcups 2y ago
    So odd, it must cost them approximately nothing to serve redirects for the static set of links they still had. Now they'll break links all over the web again.
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- KomoD 2y ago
  They've got .gle and .goog too. .gle for goo.gle
  - qingcharles 2y ago
    That's so pointless, unless I'm missing something? Why don't they just register ogle TLD so they can have Go.Ogle too?

Though Google still doesn't use .google for much of anything a decade after establishing it, because it's confusing for normal users. Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one.

mr_mitm 2y ago
gl is greenland
- jsheard 2y ago
  Oops, so it is. Not sure how I got that mixed up.
arp242 2y ago
I've seen blog.google a few times. Things like "google.com" and "gmail.com" are established brands; switching that to "search.google" or "gmail.google" isn't really going to improve anything for anyone. I guess it's kinda cute for blog.google, but other than that it's pretty useless. A bunch of companies bought these brand TLDs only to never use it and then abandon them a few years later. Probably a "zomg this is a new internets thing and if we don't do all the new internets things it we'll be left behind on the internets, and we can't be left behind on in the internets!!!11"-type affair. Here's a list: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreement-termination-2015-10-09-en https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreemen...
- hypeatei 2y ago
  gmail.google also doesn't make sense "Google mail dot Google" mail.google would be better.
  - seanw444 2y ago
    And then people would be confused at how it's not an incomplete URL, because mail.google.com exists.
saghm 2y ago
> Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one. Not for long https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-links-will-no-longer-be-available/ https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li...
- breakingcups 2y ago
  So odd, it must cost them approximately nothing to serve redirects for the static set of links they still had. Now they'll break links all over the web again.
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KomoD 2y ago
They've got .gle and .goog too. .gle for goo.gle
- qingcharles 2y ago
  That's so pointless, unless I'm missing something? Why don't they just register ogle TLD so they can have Go.Ogle too?