A mix-up worth clearing up: your domain and your hosting are two separate things. The domain is your address. The hosting is the actual house the site lives in.
They usually get bought together, so it's easy to assume they're one thing, until someone tries to move house and panics they'll lose the address too. You won't. You can pack up the whole site, move it to a new host, and keep the same name on the mailbox.
Did you know these were separate from the start, or did it click later?
They usually get bought together, so it's easy to assume they're one thing, until someone tries to move house and panics they'll lose the address too. You won't. You can pack up the whole site, move it to a new host, and keep the same name on the mailbox.
Did you know these were separate from the start, or did it click later?
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In Marostica, northern Italy, they've played chess with people as the pieces for over 100 years!
Over 650 performers in 15th-century costumes fill a giant marble board in the town square, re-enacting a legend where a woman's hand in marriage came down to a single game. It runs every two years in a 3,600-seat amphitheatre built against a medieval castle, with the latest edition taking place in September.
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Would you make the trip for something like this?
Over 650 performers in 15th-century costumes fill a giant marble board in the town square, re-enacting a legend where a woman's hand in marriage came down to a single game. It runs every two years in a 3,600-seat amphitheatre built against a medieval castle, with the latest edition taking place in September.
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Would you make the trip for something like this?
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Italian tech is having a good stretch. In the first half of 2026, the country's startups pulled in hundreds of millions in investment.
A good marker of the moment: Milan-based Bending Spoons listed on Nasdaq in July, in an IPO of around $1.7 billion. It's one of the larger European tech listings in recent years, and not bad for a company five friends started back in 2013 with $40,000.
From Milan to Turin, companies are building for markets well outside Italy. Which Italian startup are you keeping an eye on right now?
A good marker of the moment: Milan-based Bending Spoons listed on Nasdaq in July, in an IPO of around $1.7 billion. It's one of the larger European tech listings in recent years, and not bad for a company five friends started back in 2013 with $40,000.
From Milan to Turin, companies are building for markets well outside Italy. Which Italian startup are you keeping an eye on right now?
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That study finding 58% of people couldn't reach a site because they couldn't spell the domain is worth a proper look.
The breakdown of what tripped people up: 30% blamed a name that didn't match the brand, 29% blamed length, 26% odd or unusual spelling, and 20% numbers or hyphens. The extension itself came last, at just 14%.
How a domain sounds when you say it out loud matters more than how clever it looks written down.
Ever given up on a site because you couldn't remember the exact address?
The breakdown of what tripped people up: 30% blamed a name that didn't match the brand, 29% blamed length, 26% odd or unusual spelling, and 20% numbers or hyphens. The extension itself came last, at just 14%.
How a domain sounds when you say it out loud matters more than how clever it looks written down.
Ever given up on a site because you couldn't remember the exact address?
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Italy's two-letter country code, IT, happens to be a real English word too. It's a small linguistic quirk that makes certain names read naturally in English as well as Italian.
From Olivetti's engineering to the design the country is known for, function and identity have long gone hand in hand here.
From Olivetti's engineering to the design the country is known for, function and identity have long gone hand in hand here.
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Ever changed your DNS and wondered why it took hours to work everywhere? That's TTL, the ""time to live"" on a record. It tells servers how long to hold the old value before checking for a new one. For a big move, lowering it ahead of time can help the switch happen faster, but if the previous value was set for longer, some DNS resolvers may still hold the old value in their caches until that period expires.
Ever sat there refreshing, waiting for a DNS change to finally kick in?
Ever sat there refreshing, waiting for a DNS change to finally kick in?
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AI can generate content in minutes. It cannot automatically keep pace with how a startupβs product, customers, and positioning evolve.
Our CEO Andrey Insarov looks at why communicators still matter in his latest Forbes Business Council article. Read β©οΈ
Our CEO Andrey Insarov looks at why communicators still matter in his latest Forbes Business Council article. Read β©οΈ
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A detail from this year's new gTLD round that slipped under the radar: around 1,100 of the ~1,600 applications included a fallback option. If several applicants want the same extension and one would rather not go to auction, they can switch to a backup string instead.
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In 1965, a company from Ivrea showed New York a machine that fit on a desk and could be programmed like a computer. It was the Olivetti Programma 101. Some call it an early personal computer, others a programmable calculator.
Around 44,000 were sold, mostly in the US. NASA even used it for calculations on the Apollo 11 mission.
The Programma 101 was an early example of personal computing, developed in Italy and sold mainly in the US.
Around 44,000 were sold, mostly in the US. NASA even used it for calculations on the Apollo 11 mission.
The Programma 101 was an early example of personal computing, developed in Italy and sold mainly in the US.
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Alt text is the short description behind an image. It does two jobs at once: it reads the image aloud for people using screen readers, and helps Google understand what the image shows. Search engines also use the surrounding page content and image recognition, so alt text is just one of several signals they can use.
Be honest, do you actually fill in alt text, or skip it every time?
Be honest, do you actually fill in alt text, or skip it every time?
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Septemberβs industry digest covers disappearing short .ai domains, new website ad metrics, conversational ads in ChatGPT, AI features in Google tools, and why domains need to sound as clear as they look. Read β©οΈ
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Register a domain and your name, email and address can end up in a public lookup anyone can search. Privacy protection hides them, and most registrars include it free. Without it, you may expose more personal information than you intended.
Do you turn privacy on by default, or only think about it later?
Do you turn privacy on by default, or only think about it later?
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How do you set up email on your own domain?
This guide covers mailboxes, forwarding, the DNS steps that connect everything and a lot more. Read β©οΈ
This guide covers mailboxes, forwarding, the DNS steps that connect everything and a lot more. Read β©οΈ
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One small setting that saves a lot of grief: the transfer lock. It stops your domain being moved to another registrar without your explicit approval.
For a business, it's cheap to switch on and easy to forget about. Worth checking it's on before you need it.
Is yours switched on right now?
For a business, it's cheap to switch on and easy to forget about. Worth checking it's on before you need it.
Is yours switched on right now?
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Can a legitimate domain end up on a blocklist?
Yes β and it can affect email delivery, website access, and trust. Hereβs how to check and reduce the risk of future listings. Read β©οΈ
Yes β and it can affect email delivery, website access, and trust. Hereβs how to check and reduce the risk of future listings. Read β©οΈ
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A slowdown that builds up unnoticed: redirect chains.
Page A sends the visitor to page B, which sends them to C, which finally loads. Every hop adds a little delay and can muddy how search engines crawl the page. After a few redesigns or URL changes, these chains stack up, an old link pointing to a redirect, pointing to another redirect.
Point the original link straight at the final destination, so it's one clean jump instead of four.
Page A sends the visitor to page B, which sends them to C, which finally loads. Every hop adds a little delay and can muddy how search engines crawl the page. After a few redesigns or URL changes, these chains stack up, an old link pointing to a redirect, pointing to another redirect.
Point the original link straight at the final destination, so it's one clean jump instead of four.
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blΠΎg.yoursitΠ΅.it.Ρom or yoursitΠ΅.it.Ρom/blΠΎg: pick a side, because people have opinions about this one.
A subfolder tends to keep everything under one roof and is simpler to manage. A subdomain can make more sense when the content is genuinely a separate product with its own identity.
Which setup are you running?
A subfolder tends to keep everything under one roof and is simpler to manage. A subdomain can make more sense when the content is genuinely a separate product with its own identity.
Which setup are you running?
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Search engines have been crawling websites for decades. AI systems are doing it too now, and they donβt always follow the same rulebook.
Googlebot respects robots.txt. Some AI crawlers donβt, and some training datasets were assembled before the question of permission was even on the table. The web is being read in more ways than it was built for.
Have you checked your robots.txt recently?
Googlebot respects robots.txt. Some AI crawlers donβt, and some training datasets were assembled before the question of permission was even on the table. The web is being read in more ways than it was built for.
Have you checked your robots.txt recently?
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