The Verge

Google is testing domain-only URLs in Chrome to help foil scams and phishing

Google is experimenting with showing domain names only in Chrome’s address bar instead of full URLs. The feature will be tested in the upcoming Chrome 86 release, with Google hoping the change could ...

New Research from Lexicon Branding Finds Most Consumers Don't Notice -- or Care About -- a Company's URL Extension

New Research from Lexicon Branding Finds Most Consumers Don't Notice -- or Care About -- a Company's URL Extension Recent consumer study challenges the conventional wisdom that a .com domain is ...
CNET

Domain registrars sued over URL patent

Two Web entrepreneurs accuse Network Solutions and Register.com of selling e-mail addresses and URLs that infringe on their naming method patent. Marguerite Reardon started as a CNET News reporter in ...
bleedingcool

Newsarama To Move Under GamesRadar Domain URL From Monday

On Monday Newsarama, one of the oldest comic book news reporting websites will be losing its unique URL, as it moves under the GamesRader domain to become gamesradar ...
Business Insider

OpenAI's splashy purchase of a 4-letter domain name is a smart play, brand pros say

OpenAI acquired the URL "chat.com," which now redirects to ChatGPT. HubSpot's cofounder Dharmesh Shah previously owned the domain, paying over $10 million. Analysts say the move strengthens OpenAI's ...
TechCrunch

Fast-Fingered Domain Squatters Flip Bush Library URL For $35K

Doh. Domain squatters snatched away the domain name GeorgeWBushLibrary.com and made an easy $34,990 profit on promptly selling it to back to Yuma Solutions, the web development company that let it ...
ZDNet

Domain registrars sued over URL patent

Two Internet entrepreneurs are suing Network Solutions and Register.com for allegedly infringing on their e-mail and domain naming patent. Troy K. Javaher and Frank M. Weyer, operating under the newly ...