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Shame they couldn't get g.cc

Since .cc is the same character it would make the domain the quickest to type as well as the shortest.

posted by : Photoboy, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
erm...

http://www.google.cn/webhp?source=g_cn

posted by : ..., 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
dk. is shorter

I think you'll find that http://dk./ is shorter. It used to work without the dot, but for some reason it doesn't any more

posted by : Haddock, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
They should have moved to Guernsey

The gg cctld allows single character domain names too. Unfortunately for google g.gg is already registered (as, I suspect, will be the other 25 possibilities).

posted by : TCB, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Shortcut to shortest name

Shortest domain aren't necessaily the quickest or easiest to type.

Windows users can type in AND go to x.com in 3 key presses:

x
CNTL + ENTER

posted by : Steve, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
I?

Surely the length of the letter i is shorter than g? I see i.gg is 'available'

posted by : Mark, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
Two keys are better than one...

Technically, typing the same character twice is slower (unless you are scanning and pecking).

With fingers staggered, you should be able to type to different letters faster than the same one twice as you could press the second key at the instant the first key was released, without having to change any motion (ie transition from release (finger up) to press finger down)

Just my $0.02 :P

posted by : giz, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment
g.gg

g.gg would be pretty kool...although if I remember rightly, ain't that the name of a pr0n distributor from germany???

posted by : DJMatus23, 05 November 2007 Complain about this comment

Google buys shortest domain name

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