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...]
Google Starts Rolling Out Fully Designed The New Google+
In a blog post today, Google introduced the world to the new Google+ "Today, we’re starting to introduce a fully redesigned Google+ that puts Communities and Collections front and center" "Communities, which now average 1.2 million new joins per day, and Collections, which launched just five months ago and is growing even faster. Whether it’s the Nonfiction Addiction Community, where people … [Read more...]
French Regulators Want the right to be forgotten to include .com
We have written before about Google and their battle with certain European countries on the "right to be forgotten". Google has contended that results should only be removed from the local country code results, so if someone from France makes a request, then the results no longer show on Google.fr. The E.U. would like to see the results removed from everywhere including Google.com. Google does … [Read more...]
Google Upset With Symantec Over False Security Certificates
According to PCMag.com Google is rather peeved at Symantec for issuing fraudulent security certificates for numerous domains, including Google. This started out with just a few bad certs and then Google started looking into it themselves. Google found more bad certs than what Symantec first quoted, a few weeks later Symantec found more on their own after their own audit. From the article: So … [Read more...]