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Though Google still doesn't use .google for much of anything a decade after establishing it, because it's confusing for normal users.

Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one.

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I've seen blog.google a few times.

Things like "google.com" and "gmail.com" are established brands; switching that to "search.google" or "gmail.google" isn't really going to improve anything for anyone. I guess it's kinda cute for blog.google, but other than that it's pretty useless.

A bunch of companies bought these brand TLDs only to never use it and then abandon them a few years later. Probably a "zomg this is a new internets thing and if we don't do all the new internets things it we'll be left behind on the internets, and we can't be left behind on in the internets!!!11"-type affair.

Here's a list: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/gtld-registry-agreemen...

gmail.google also doesn't make sense "Google mail dot Google"

mail.google would be better.

And then people would be confused at how it's not an incomplete URL, because mail.google.com exists.

> Their best known gimmick URL is the goo.gl shortener, which is actually the ccTLD for (not) Greece (actually Greenland) rather than a Google-specific one.

Not for long https://developers.googleblog.com/en/google-url-shortener-li...

So odd, it must cost them approximately nothing to serve redirects for the static set of links they still had. Now they'll break links all over the web again.

They've got .gle and .goog too. .gle for goo.gle

That's so pointless, unless I'm missing something?

Why don't they just register ogle TLD so they can have Go.Ogle too?

gl is greenland

Oops, so it is. Not sure how I got that mixed up.

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