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Apple Now Owns oiTunes.com

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2:00PM September 5, 2011 | Alex Kidman

Apple’s snapped itself up a range of iTunes.com misspellings from a single domain name holder (there are less charitable terms), according to Macrumors. More »


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Is Google’s Next Product Google Poo?

11:45PM April 23, 2008 | Matt Buchanan

You know, one of the most common typos I make when I try to go to Google is googlemotherfucker.com. Happens all the time. Luckily, Google actually owns that domain name, so I won’t happen upon a bed of pop-up nastiness. Uptime monitoring service Pingdom has come up with a massive list of domain names Google owns after analysing the root zone file and some WHOIS snooping. Other domain treasures include gmailsucks, gmailblows, googlepoo, fuckengoogle, omgoogle and thesecretofburritos. There’s a freaky porn-obsessed Google domain underbelly too. Check these out.

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