According to Thenextweb.com, Google has acquired the domain name YT.be, which it started forwarding to its goo.gl URL shortening service today.
“Presumably, Google will use the domain name for shortened links to YouTube videos. ”
“Today, the company uses another .be domain name to do that, namely youtu.be, as you can tell from this totally randomly selected tweet:
I have it on good authority that Google acquired the domain name, which was originally registered back in May 2003, from a Belgian Internet entrepreneur, but didn’t make its identity known throughout the purchasing process. But you can see Google is the owner of the domain name these days by simply looking up the WHOIS information”
Google also owns the shorterner g.co
They already use youtu.be, which is perfect.
They should buy goog.ly now 😉
yes they have been using youtu.be but this one is shorter and will apparently replace it
I think I’ll just stick to the YouTube icon in my bookmark bar, which conveniently sends me to YouTube with a single click. No typing at all required. (Doesn’t everyone do this?) Although I could always edit the URL of the icon so it goes to YT.Be instead. Hmm, so many important decisions to make today…
I have fbho.me for new Facebook home. Hopefully will be of some use