Google sacks 28 employees involved in protests over Israel govt contract
Tech giant Google has laid off 28 employees who were involved in sit-in protests at its offices over a Google contract with the Israeli government.
Tech giant Google on Tuesday announced that users will be able to apply for a ‘.new’ domain shortcuts from December 2 that will be secure and served over HTTPS.
Last year Google introduced the .new shortcuts to a bunch of its products. For example, if a user types “docs.new” in the URL bar, a fresh G Suite document would open in a new tab.
Companies like Spotify, Bitly, Canva, Coda, eBay, GitHub, Medium, OVO Sound and many others are already using the .new shortcuts on their current live websites.
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“With .new, you can help people take action faster. We hope to see .new shortcuts for all the things people frequently do online,” said Google.
Users seeking to get the .new domain can file their registration, which will begin from December 02 and the results of the first allocated batch would be announced in January 2020. As per the company’s policy, a .new domain must bring the user directly to the shortcut or action. However, if it doesn’t, the domain may be suspended or deleted by Google Registry.
At present, there are more than 350 million domain names, led by “.com” and “.net”.
(With input from agencies)
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