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I know RTFA is not something that happens often on /., or even reading the entire article summary. But you didn't even need to read the whole summary. The first couple of words of the first sentence of the summary would indicate you're wrong. A history of YouTube would indicate you're wrong. The YouTube WHOIS record would indicate you're wrong. YouTube itself would say you're wrong.

If it were a social network, it could be more popular than Google+.

http://who.is/whois/coogle.com

Oh, c'mon. Does Kobe Bryant drink Sprite? Did Robert Wagner get a reverse mortgage? Does Danica Patrick buy godaddy.com domains?

More to the point, does Kobe Bryant entice ME to drink sprite? Ah, No.

And yes, Danica Patrick (or someone claiming to be her official site) does indeed buy (get for free?) a domain from Go Daddy.

For a lot of us, having Al Gore or Clinton or Ashton Kutcher or similar clueless people pimping for a coding site is a clear signal to run away like our hair is on fire.
Who pulled their strings to get them to jump on that bandwagon? It costs money to even get their attention. Where is that coming from, and what is their motivation?

Premature celebration much?

Well, it's partially due to summary linking to some shitty blog instead of actual TIOBE page which gives more than just places and up/down arrows.

Trends show that it's just a random spike in C's index, which is pretty much gone now. I also suspect that Bash's sudden popularity boost is due to TIOBE's statistics shittiness - check how it suddenly jumps in one month of Feb 2012. I've got an inkling that it might have to do with bash.org-like quote sites, here's one coincidentally(?) getting new domain in the same timeframe - and it's pretty high in searches, what with it being one of top 500 popular sites in Russia and top 5000 worldwide.

Um, you realize that domain names can be bought, sold, and transferred, right?
For your consideration.

Already taken, but unused.

PayPal has always owned it:

The current incarnation of PayPal is the result of a March 2000 merger between Confinity and X.com. X.com was founded by Elon Musk in March 1999, initially as an Internet financial services company. Both Confinity and X.com launched their websites in late 1999.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PayPal

That doesn't add up. According to this article the existing single-letter second-level domains were all registered before 1993, as in 1993 IANA reserved the remaining domains. Originally x.com was owned by Weinstein & DePaolis. Some half assed googling led me to this, which isn't much. And a quick whois showed that they also own x.cx, judging by the email used.

http://www.asus.co.uk/ is not Asus UK website. Check out http://uk.asus.com./ Also check whois info for both.

For asus.com:

Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Status: clientTransferProhibited

Expiration Date: 2011-10-24
Creation Date: 1995-10-25
Last Update Date: 2007-03-29

Name Servers:
        dns3.asus.com
        dns7.asus.com

For asus.co.uk:

Domain name:
                asus.co.uk

        Registrant:
                Asustek Computer Inc

        Trading as:
                Asus

        Registrant type:
                UK Individual

        Registrant's address:
                The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
                address omitted from the WHOIS service.

        Registrar:
                1 & 1 Internet AG [Tag = SCHLUND]
                URL: http://registrar.1und1.info/

        Relevant dates:
                Registered on: 23-May-1997
                Renewal date: 23-May-2011
                Last updated: 22-May-2009

        Registration status:
                Renewal request being processed.

        Name servers:
                ns59.1and1.co.uk
                ns60.1and1.co.uk

Furthermore, if you look around the fake site, you'll see that it redirects to uk.asus.com for all URLs that you feed to it (thus creating the illusion that it is indeed an official Asus site), except for that one URL which opens the webpage linking to the site in TFA.

http://www.asus.co.uk/ is not Asus UK website. Check out http://uk.asus.com./ Also check whois info for both.

For asus.com:

Registrar: NETWORK SOLUTIONS, LLC.
Whois Server: whois.networksolutions.com
Referral URL: http://www.networksolutions.com/
Status: clientTransferProhibited

Expiration Date: 2011-10-24
Creation Date: 1995-10-25
Last Update Date: 2007-03-29

Name Servers:
        dns3.asus.com
        dns7.asus.com

For asus.co.uk:

Domain name:
                asus.co.uk

        Registrant:
                Asustek Computer Inc

        Trading as:
                Asus

        Registrant type:
                UK Individual

        Registrant's address:
                The registrant is a non-trading individual who has opted to have their
                address omitted from the WHOIS service.

        Registrar:
                1 & 1 Internet AG [Tag = SCHLUND]
                URL: http://registrar.1und1.info/

        Relevant dates:
                Registered on: 23-May-1997
                Renewal date: 23-May-2011
                Last updated: 22-May-2009

        Registration status:
                Renewal request being processed.

        Name servers:
                ns59.1and1.co.uk
                ns60.1and1.co.uk

Furthermore, if you look around the fake site, you'll see that it redirects to uk.asus.com for all URLs that you feed to it (thus creating the illusion that it is indeed an official Asus site), except for that one URL which opens the webpage linking to the site in TFA.

Excerpt from 'To Be A Muslim' by Fathi Yakan:
"Working for Islam is a must from the Islamic point of view because the existing political and economic system and manmade laws operate functionally to deny the wisdom of Allah on earth. This denial makes it compulsory for every Muslim to establish functionally Islamic society in every country on earth and to restore the Islamic way of life taught by the prophets. It is also every Muslimâ(TM)s responsibility to remove all impediments to the worship of Allah alone, by every human being in belief, behavior and social life.
Since transforming every society into a functionally Islamic community and governing in accordance with the law of Allah, the Almighty, is a must, therefore every effort to accomplish these goals, according to the shariâ(TM)ah is also a must. Whenever the accomplishment of something compulsory is impossible without accomplishing something else, that prior accomplishment is also compulsory.
The Muslim countries have been ruled by manmade systems with elements borrowed from the Romans, Chinese, French and many other cultures. The economic systems in these countries are capitalistic, Socialist, or a mixture of both evils. This overlay of secular cultures makes it all the more necessary to abolish all traces of such primitive life (labiliyya) and to reinforce the understanding and application of the eternal and universal Islamic din until it becomes the ruling power throughout the world.

The application of the Islamic din depends on the elected ruler or leader. Their election depends on the existence of Islamic power, which alone can implement the shariâ(TM)ab as an Islamic system throughout society in every field, whether it be economics, family law, war, disarmament, or international law, or any other, throughout the world."

We can read that goal of ISLAM is to rule the whole world.

Here is this book:
http://web.youngmuslims.ca/online_library/books/to_be_a_muslim/part2/ii.htm

Notice that this webpage is located in Canada:
http://www.who.is/whois-ca/ip-address/youngmuslims.ca/

Anyone care about such stuff then? They are allowed to post Nazi like ideology in Internet because there are using so called 'free speech'?

/Joss

The difference is that Zombo.com has only been since 1999, and therefore does not fall into the same category as the sites in TFA, whereas purple.com has been around since 1994.

- RG>