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Scammers snatch up expired domains, vexing Google

Expired domains snapped up by scammers and black-hat SEO folks could erode the trust people have in Google.

WTF is .xyz?

If you’ve visited a crypto company’s website recently, you’ve probably visited a URL ending in “.xyz” instead of its cheugier counterpart, .com. From fintech Block, formerly known as Squ

What I learned the hard way from naming 30+ startups

How should a founder go about effectively naming their baby startup and avoid picking a name that will hurt them?

Online workspace startup Notion hit by outage, citing DNS issues

Notion, the online workspace startup that was last year valued at over $2 billion, was knocked offline after a DNS outage. The collaborative online office and document service was not loading as of ar

Universal Acceptance is the first-mover advantage that may be worth billions

Bringing systems up to date with Universal Acceptance is an easy way to make the internet more accessible for billions of people.

What startup names are most effective?

Entrepreneurs take a long journey when naming their brainchild, comparable to a parent naming their own flesh and blood. There are many reasons behind naming...

You can now register .dev domains

Google today announced that you can now register .dev domain names. Google acquired the .dev top-level domain when ICANN opened up the web to new generic top-level domains (gTLD) a few years ago. At t

Crunch Report | Most-Viewed YouTube Video of All Time

Wiz Khalifa's music video for "See you again" is the new most-viewed video on YouTube, Elon Musk buys back X.com domain name, Toyota launches an AI fund and Facebook tests display ads in Messenger. Al

CloudFlare’s New Domain Registry Protects Site Owners From Domain Hijacking

CloudFlare, the security-focused content delivery network, already protects its customers from DDoS attacks and other attacks, but today, the company is taking another step to ensure its customers rem

Alphabet Now Owns abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com

Since it couldn’t buy ABC.com or Alphabet.com, Google Alphabet has acquired the next best thing. abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.com Google announced the structural changes that led to Alphabet back