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Re: Google owned duck.com redirects to Google.com. How is this legal?

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Post by NetStrikeForce » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 10:56 AM UTC

mikejb wrote: post #4

Preface: I have only little knowledge aboud DNS records. Feel free to correct or add any information. Here is what 10 minutes on the internet got me: - According to Wikipedia [0] DDG started 2008 - The whois record shows 1995 as creation date (I assume this is the first time someone registered it back then?) - According to [1] the Domain changed owners 3 times (since 2002); These records indicate Google bought the do…

https://web.archive.org/web/20101002183258/http://duck.com/ in October 2010 it still had the website for a software development company.

The redirect was added shortly after in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101203075708/http://www.duck.c...

I don't think there's even malice. They probably bought the domain and "parked" it by doing a 301 to Google.com - that's it.

Re: Google owned duck.com redirects to Google.com. How is this legal?

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Post by lucideer » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 12:35 PM UTC

NetStrikeForce wrote: post #11

mikejb wrote: post #4

Preface: I have only little knowledge aboud DNS records. Feel free to correct or add any information. Here is what 10 minutes on the internet got me: - According to Wikipedia [0] DDG started 2008 - The whois record shows 1995 as creation date (I assume this is the first time someone registered it back then?) - According to [1] the Domain changed owners 3 times (since 2002); These records indicate Google bought the do…

https://web.archive.org/web/20101002183258/http://duck.com/ in October 2010 it still had the website for a software development company. The redirect was added shortly after in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101203075708/http://www.duck.c... I don't think there's even malice. They probably bought the domain and "parked" it by doing a 301 to Google.com - that's it.

It apparently came to them when they acquired the Duck Corporation[0], but I think it seems slightly naïve to assume no malice in setting up the redirect. Google own many many domains that do not redirect to google.com or similar.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Corporation

Re: Google owned duck.com redirects to Google.com. How is this legal?

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Post by tw04 » Mon, Jul 04, 2016, 12:53 PM UTC

This is more than a little bit silly. Duck.com used to be owned by On2 Technologies which made video compression software. Google acquired On2 and got duck.com as part of the deal. It's not like they went out and just bought the domain. And they definitely didn't spend $106 MILLION on a video compression company just to get the domain. This is entirely legal.

http://googlepress.blogspot.com/2009/08/google-to-acquire-on...

https://web.archive.org/web/20080301180912/http://www.duck.c...