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Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 18

by Dina Ely
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Wins and Fails This Week in Geek v 18

You’d be lucky to own the Sun, but you might want to steer clear of emoticons on XXX. If the preceding made no sense, it’s because you haven’t been keeping up with this week’s wins and fails in all things geek! Read on for the scoop… WIN: Selling the Sun Since Oracle announced it’d be decommissioning the Sun.com web site, which came with the $7 billion purchase of Sun Microsystems, speculation has been overflowing about whether or not they’d sell it – and what kind of price the domain would fetch. In addition to being a valuable 3-letter domain, it’s the 12th oldest .com domain on the Internet. Brokers say Read more »

Google's new URL shortener comes from Greenland

by andy
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Google's new URL shortener comes from Greenland

I’m always curious to know how long companies have been planning their Internet campaigns and services, so when I read about Google’s new URL shortening service (only currently available to Toolbar and Feedburner users) I decided to do a little digging. First up, they’re using the TLD (top level domain) for Greenland, in order to give them the .gl extension for the goo.gl domain name. My guess is that, if Lebanon had a .le and not a .lb extension, Google would’ve registered goog.le as well. It took a while for me to get a whois listing for it. It seems it’s not as simple as visiting a standard whois server Read more »