Friday, July 22, 2011

Google Buy G.co for URL shortener


Google has just bought the domain shortener G.co to provide a service on site URL address.

This treatment is later provided to cut the links the URL (Universal Resource Locator) of a range of services of Google, in order to be distributed to various social networks and services microblogs.

"We will use G.co to submit websites that are owned by Google. So, every time there is a link g.co, users can make sure that the link when clicked on will only lead to Google services," said Google is collected from the site PCWorld .

The emergence of this G.co services later will not affect shortener services  public url that had been operating Goo.gl. Not yet known what price incurred by Google to purchase this domain. However, generally the domain. Co beginning with the letters sold for more than U $ 1.5 million or around Rp 13 billion.

Some companies also have top domains. Co. Besides Google, Overstock has purchased the domain O.co. While Amazon has bought the domain A.co, Z.co, K.co, and Cloud.co. Twitter even do not want to miss, bought T.co as a service URL.

In fact, domain. Co initially provided as a domain for the Republic of Colombia. But with the permission of that country, commercialized as an alternative of growing domains is full. Now, domain registration. Co reported to have more than 1 million names.

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