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by obiwanpallav1 1766 days ago
I read somewhere that Go engineering team wanted go.org instead of golang.org but they couldn't get it as it was not for sale. [Can't find the source of this info though]

Also, the questions that contained `Golang` in the title and description @ Stackoverflow were edited to contain `Go` instead by the users with edit description being "Name of the language is Go and not Golang". That's when I thought why didn't they use go.co or go.com or any domain name having go instead of golang.

I'm not a very inspired Go user but have always loved their simplicity(the language) and carefulness(the way we moved to Go mod) and due to this I've always read their Release notes and blogs with the favorite one being Profiling Go Programs[1].

1. https://go.dev/blog/pprof

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go.com was an early pre-Web 2.0 company. I guess it was ultimately acquired by Disney or something, but yes, that definitely wasn't and isn't available.
Oh, that's right. They even had a search engine, iirc?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Go.com