Google Domains has moved over to a .Google TLD. You might remember last April's Fool's day when Google temporarily put up "com.google". This is for real and in a post Google says: Introducing domains.google — a new URL for Google Domains "We’re so excited about new domain name endings, we decided to use one ourselves! Starting today, you can find us at domains.google" "Like it? Get a … [Read more...]
Google + 5 Registries Release Domain Test: “Developers Can Test Compatibility with new gTLD’s”
Google registry released a new tool "Domain Test" which is a "tool designed to help developers test their applications for compatibility with new top-level domains (TLDs). " Domain Test was "developed by Google and launched in a partnership between Google Registry and Ausregistry, CentralNic, Donuts, RightSide, and Uniregistry. Domain Test is an open source project available under the Apache … [Read more...]
Google Blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015
Google released its Better Ads Report 2015 and Mike O'Brien at Clickz.com brokedown the report. It seems that Google blocked 780 million bad ads in 2015. From ClickZ: Some of the main perpetrators include: More than 12.5 million pharmaceutical ads violating Google’s healthcare policy, which doesn’t allow misleading claims or products that haven’t been approved. Scammers – more than … [Read more...]
Google Finally Acquires Alphabetinc.com
Google finally acquired a domain name you thought it would have gotten well before its run on buying Alphabet domains, Alphabetinc.com. As we have been reporting Google since launching abc.xyz as the website for its holding company Alphabet, Inc has been acquiring all letter of the Alphabet they could get and now owns 20 of the possible 26 (actually 25 domains since a.com is reserved by … [Read more...]
Google Buys More “Letter” .Com’s: Now owns 19 of Them; Maybe only 6 Left
Google bought several more "letter".com's yesterday picking up abcdefghijkl.com abcdefghijklm.com abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxy.com All registered in 2004. Since turning the domain world on its head buying abc.xyz Google now … [Read more...]
Google Adds abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com to its Collection Of Alphabet Domains
Google has just added another "Alphabet" domain name to its collection buying the domain name abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwx.com. The domain name was most recently owned by the The Giardino Law Firm, Inc of San Antonio and by a domainer in Tennessee before that. The domain has an original creation date of 2003. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its … [Read more...]
Google Buys The Domain ABCDEFGHIJK.com
Google love affair for alphabet domain names continued yesterday as it bought the domain name ABCDEFGHIJK.com The domain name which was owned under privacy at the time, was owned by the Whois Foundation earlier this year and seems to have an original creation date of 2004. The domain name is another Google acquisition since acquiring abc.xyz for its Corporate parent Alphabet. Google … [Read more...]