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Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
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Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#12I see this kind of stuff happening all the time; some of them being high-profile sites too (e.g. "Keep America Great" got taken from Trump). Is there some website that monitors domain expiration and sends out alerts or is this mostly lone-actors? I'm always surprised by how quickly they move in on the domain
There are many such services, which will not only alert you but automatically try to buy the domain for you. Search for “domain backorders”.
Oh wow even GoDaddy provides the service. Interesting. Thanks!
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#13How was he able to register the domain months before it was supposed to expire? Did he hack the registrar itself?
Either the registrar or the registry - the registry seems more likely as there are no requirements to running a country code TLD’s registry on account of ICANN not wanting to anger any government or seem like they have power over ‘government property’.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#14> The technical term for this type of manoeuvre is called “Cybersquatting” in English.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#15I wonder how long it would have taken to be noticed if he replicated DNS and sat on it for a while. Better yet, how long if he had redirected or cloned the site.
Google gets enough DNS traffic that I doubt you could just sit on it for very long. Not without an expensive bill.
But what if you just point to original Google DNS servers?
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#16I see this kind of stuff happening all the time; some of them being high-profile sites too (e.g. "Keep America Great" got taken from Trump). Is there some website that monitors domain expiration and sends out alerts or is this mostly lone-actors? I'm always surprised by how quickly they move in on the domain
yeah but all the good ones are automatically reregistered way faster than you could click the Buy button.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#17> The technical term for this type of manoeuvre is called “Cybersquatting” in English.
Yah. This gives him some bragging rights at most. If he hacked something, it'll be a different story though.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#18If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains
Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo.
That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#19If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains
Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo. That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...
iirc this was originally owned by Google and then given to DDG.
Re: Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
#20If you're looking for domains potentially getting 'dropped' by Google, look no further: https://infogalactic.com/info/List_of_Google_domains
Took a quick glance and noticed that this article is claiming "duck.com" is owned by Google, even though it redirects to DuckDuckGo. That domain has Namecheap's Whois Guard enabled, so there's no registrant information. However, I'm still inclined to think that it isn't Google's domain since the NS records for "duck.com" point to "nsXX.quack-dns.com"...
duck.com was owned by google from an acquisition in 2010.
It was sold to DDG in 2018 https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/12/18137369/duckduckgo-duck...