Domains News

Google launched an algorithm update that affects the diversity of search results. Google's head of webspam and Distinguished Engineer, tweeted: div.twit...

Why Does This Mistyped URL Redirect To Mitt Romney’s Campaign Site?

Seriously. I don't purport to know the reason why a simple URL typo redirects to a page on MittRomney.com, but it definitely does. You can try it for yourselves. Try to visit...

Here’s The Latest From GoDaddy (And Anonymous Own3r)

Update: GoDaddy says service is completely restored, and that the outage was not the result of a hack. Full statement...

Removal Requests Actually Down, Following Google Algorithm Change

On August 10, Google announced that it would be updating its algor...

Google Apps Now Offers 30 TLDs (Including ccTLDs)

Google announced today that Google Apps now offers 30 top-level domain options, including 22 country code TLDs (ccTLDs). Google has partnered with...

Facebook Awarded FacebookConnect.com Domain

In 2008, Facebook announced the expansion of the Facebook platform with the launch of Facebook Connect - which allowed F...

Google Gives You A New Way To Verify Your Domain

Google has launched a new way to verify that you are the owner of your site or domain for Webmaster Tools. You can now do this using DNS CNAME records. Google says the new opti...

Does Google Want To Get Into The Domain Provider Business?

It's no secret that Google applied for 101 gTLDs in ICANN's recent yar...

Wikipedia Registers 11 New Domain Names

Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia that anyone can edit, has just registered 11 new...

Demand Media’s Military, Political gTLD Choices Simply Driven By Data

There are a lot of interesting sub-stories behind the big Internet land rush that has been the gTLD application process. This week,...

Amazon Competes With Google On A Bunch Of gTLDs

Google applied for 101 gTLDs, according to the big list ICANN...

Demand Media Applies For Military, Political Domains

ICANN released the big list of gTLD applicants today....

What Does Google’s gTLD Applications Say About The Company?

ICANN revealed the list of generic Top-Level Domains today...