California - Google Inc. has recently acquired a domain name G.co. The plan, a company led by Larry Page it will use short URLs earlier as the exclusive site addresses.
domain of G.co is unhesitatingly bought by Google Inc.
The use of these new domain names, in addition to reducing the heavy use of the name. Com, social networking is also easier to adapt and easy to remember.
"We will only use g.co to take you to Web pages that Google and only we can create a shortcut g.co," Google wrote in a statement quoted by the tech site PC World, Tuesday, July 19, 2011.
Previously, Google also has made domain names Goo.gl shorter than google.com. However, the address is still not widely used because Internet users are already familiar with the address of google.com.
Although it is now available a new domain that is shorter, Google said the contents of the service nothing had changed. Actually, the domain. Co originally belonged to Colombia. However, the country's government then transferred the administration of the domain naming system. Co to. CO Internet SAS in early 2010.
Now, there are various companies that use the domain. Co as an identity in cyberspace. Overstock company for example, must spend U.S. $ 350 thousand to buy the domain O.co. As Amazon.com has four domains. Co, namely A.co, Z.co, K.co, and Cloud.co. Meanwhile, Twitter choose T.co to shorten the service URL.
. CO Internet SAS announced today the number of applicants who want to use the domain more than 1 million potential users. World Trademark Review magazine also named. CO Internet SAS as the holder of the trademark best among other Internet companies, like Google, Amazon, eBay, Yahoo.
