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I still remembered, on last June 16th, i saw flicker.com still displayed its own website, never tells about flickr.com .
As we know, flickr.com is owned by Yahoo, which is an image and video hosting website, web service suite, and online community. But flicker.com only displayed its logo and traffics stats as pictures below.
Tags: flicker.com, flicker.com trademark
.co tld domains registration is available for registration within three phases;
a) Global Sunrise – April,26th to June,10th. Exclusively for trademark holders.
b) Landrush -June, 21th to July,13th. High commercial value application and auction for more than one application.
c) General Availability – start from July, 20th. Open to public, first-come first-served basis.
During Landrush launch, E.co has been moved to auction at sedo because more than one application for this domain has been submitted.
Auction started from $10k on June, 7, 2010. Final price is $81k on June,10,2010 with 11 bidders!
Tags: .co, e.co, sales history
When .co has been announced as available, twitter has grabbed t.co at the right time. This great domain is primarily use for twitter’s URL shortener, only for twitter.
URL shortener is just like tinyurl.com, xr.com. People use URL shortener free service in order to shorten long URL become more short URL and easy to use it. Sometimes it is used to hide URLs.
T.co is more valuable, catchy and long term profits. “T” is enough to represent the URL shortener service. “T” is for twitter. More traffics for Twitter.com and T.co, side by side.
“Twitter uses the t.co domain as part of a service to protect users from harmful activity, to provide value for the developer ecosystem, and as a quality signal for surfacing relevant, interesting Tweets.”
T.co also uses for security reason.
“Since early March (2010), we have been routing links within Direct Messages through our link service to detect, intercept, and prevent the spread of malware, phishing, and other dangers. Any link shared in a Direct Message has been wrapped with a twt.tl URL. Links reported to us as malicious are blacklisted, and we present users with a page that warns them of potentially malicious content if they click blacklisted links. We want users to have this benefit on all tweets.”
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