I have it on good authority that Google acquired the domain name, which was originally registered back in May 2003, from a Belgian Internet entrepreneur, but didn’t make its identity known throughout ...

URL shortening services are ubiquitous on Twitter and other cramped online spaces. They won't all last, as tr.im has demonstrated, and their shutdowns could annihilate your linking history. If you own ...

A URL is a Uniform Resource Locator, a tool used to find webpages. A URL is composed of a protocol, a domain name, a path to the webpage, and a webpage name. Here's a brief introduction to URLs and ...

Remember the early days of the internet? You could spend all day chatting with your friends on AOL messenger while you played solitaire on Yahoo games. And then your mom picked up the phone to make a ...

Posts from this author will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. is a senior reporter who has covered AI, robotics, and more for eight years at The Verge. Google is ...

Once you’ve decided you need a website, your first to-do item isto make a list of possible names for your site. Then run, don’twalk, to the nearest computer, log on to the internet, go to yourfavorite ...

Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. Chat.com now redirects to ChatGPT. was a senior AI reporter working with The Verge’s policy and tech teams. On Wednesday, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman posted a simple URL ...

A keyword in a domain name will not help a website rank for that keyword, says Google’s John Mueller. Google’s John Mueller advises SEOs and site owners there’s no ranking benefit associated with ...

A comedy writer bought the web domain TrumpKennedyCenter.org and the satirical site he created is drawing attention amid the ...

What do you do if a web address you printed on a physical flyer contains a typo, and you send that flyer to more than 100,000 households? Well, if you’re the Swiss canton (“state”) of Basel-Stadt, you ...