Google.com, one minute outside Google
In 2015, a researcher managed to buy google.com for one minute. This surprising story is often retold too quickly, yet it offers a useful reminder of how sensitive a domain name can be.
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Madonna.com: a famous name, but facts that still mattered
In 2000, Madonna secured the transfer of madonna.com. The lesson goes beyond “a celebrity gets her name back”.
Symbolics.com: a .com before the Web
The first .com did not belong to a search engine or an online shop. Its history is a useful reminder that a domain name and a website are different things.
There is a country behind .tv
Television comes to mind immediately. Yet .tv is Tuvalu’s country-code extension. Two letters can have a different origin from the one we imagine.