blo.gs is a service based on RSS feed aggregation, primarily from blogs, which produces a simple list (and also an RSS feed thereof) of the user's bookmarked sites, ordered according to recentness of update. It was acquired by Yahoo!

Yahoo!

Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, United States. The company is perhaps best known for its web portal, search engine , Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping ,...

 in June 2005. On April 2009 the service had been transferred from Yahoo to Automattic

Automattic

Automattic, Inc. is a web development corporation founded in August 2005.It is most notable for WordPress.com , as well as its contributions to WordPress .-Projects:Other projects include:...

, the business that runs WordPress.com

WordPress.com

WordPress.com is a weblog hosting provider owned by Automattic which opened to beta testers on August 8, 2005 and opened to the public on November 21, 2005. It is powered by the open source WordPress software...

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The unconventional domain name is known as a domain hack

Domain hack

A domain hack is an unconventional domain name that combines domain levels, especially the top-level domain , to spell out the full "name" or title of the domain. Examples include del.icio.us , goo.gl and fold.it...

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External links

• blo.gs
• Yahoo!