mre29 1339 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 I can't believe I'm the first person to post about this here: ESPN.com has finally replaced espn.go.com, and a newish SEO rule means it won’t lose Google juice It isn’t quite our-long-national-nightmare-is-over level, but one of the significant daily reminders of the early web just disappeared. ESPN’s website, which had been hosted at espn.go.com since 1998, is finally now just at espn.com. I just checked and can confirm that the sites for at least three of the ABC O&Os have also left the go.com domain; I'm assuming the other four have as well. ABC and ABC News are still at their go.com URLs, but I imagine they'll switch over the weekend. Your turn, cbslocal.com. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TennTV1983 742 Posted August 5, 2016 Share Posted August 5, 2016 Ironically, typing in just go.com directly takes you to The Walt Disney Company's website where all of its properties are listed. Maybe it's a sign Disney is finally ready to retire the domain altogether. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4159 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I'd be fairly certain that, once CBS completes spinning off their radio division, the CBSlocal.com domain will also be retired. That being said... Disney's used GO.com since 1998??? Wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eat News 4738 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I'd be fairly certain that, once CBS completes spinning off their radio division, the CBSlocal.com domain will also be retired. That being said... Disney's used GO.com since 1998??? Wow. About as long as I have been using Netscape ver 3.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LTSC1980 96 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 Your turn, cbslocal.com. I'd be fairly certain that, once CBS completes spinning off their radio division, the CBSlocal.com domain will also be retired. That being said... Disney's used GO.com since 1998??? Wow. I guess it's time to see the return of WJZ.com.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted August 6, 2016 Share Posted August 6, 2016 I'd be fairly certain that, once CBS completes spinning off their radio division, the CBSlocal.com domain will also be retired.What about the CBS Local app? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mrknowitall526 107 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 6abc.com no longer says "abclocal.go.com" either. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
24994J 5269 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 All 8 locals are off the network, and have been for awhile. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mardek1995 200 Posted August 8, 2016 Share Posted August 8, 2016 All 8 locals are off the network, and have been for awhile.Now I wonder what'll happen to the CBSlocal.com domain and the CBS Local app Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mre29 1339 Posted August 8, 2016 Author Share Posted August 8, 2016 Ironically, typing in just go.com directly takes you to The Walt Disney Company's website where all of its properties are listed. Not all of them. Missing from the list are the websites for Marvel, Star Wars...and the individual O&O stations. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rusty Muck 4159 Posted August 9, 2016 Share Posted August 9, 2016 Now I wonder what'll happen to the CBSlocal.com domain and the CBS Local app Far, far too soon to guess when or if. The IPO and subsequent spinoff of CBS Radio could take almost a year. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SterlingNorth 33 Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Not all of them. Missing from the list are the websites for Marvel, Star Wars...and the individual O&O stations. The rotting caucus of Infoseek is a weird place. Whoever at Disney who is running Go.com saw to it to put up links to Moana and Rogue One, but not to update the name of ABC Family to Freeform. Odd. Still, as long as http://abc.abcnews.go.com still redirects to ABC's website (because for whatever reason, for about a week in 1999, ABC was moved to a subdomain of ABC News, and for all those poor souls who bookmarked ABC in that week, the redirect must live on), I'll continue to chuckle at it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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