Did Google just buy dropbox.com? • Hacker News Board

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by noodle » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:09 PM UTC

mpotter wrote: post #6

javery wrote: post #2

The whois is from someone who registered it in 1995, so I would say no.

It's a shame that Google gets the A record, since it now gets ~40k UVs from getdropbox.com misdirects... http://siteanalytics.compete.com/dropbox.com/

i must admit, if i owned the dropbox.com domain and wasn't doing anything with it, i would have either sold it to the dropbox team, or used it as a front for the dropbox affiliate program.

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by tocomment » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:11 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #8

dropbox != getdropbox.com FWIW.

wow I had no idea. How do I get to dropbox? I almost signed up for getdropbox.com a few days ago.

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by mpotter » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:11 PM UTC

mahmud wrote: post #8

dropbox != getdropbox.com FWIW.

Yeah, and I think it's a shame because, while getdropbox.com works great as a marketing site, getdropbox.com/home doesn't feel right for their Web interface.

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by reg4c » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:15 PM UTC

Does this mean that Google might buy Dropbox that is at getdropbox.com now?

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by [deleted] » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:18 PM UTC

tocomment wrote: post #12

mahmud wrote: post #8

dropbox != getdropbox.com FWIW.

wow I had no idea. How do I get to dropbox? I almost signed up for getdropbox.com a few days ago.

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Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by axod » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:20 PM UTC

WTF no,

Registrant: Giri Nirkondar 1929 Clover Ct Pleasanton, California 94588 United States

Someone just pointed the domain at GOOGLE APP ENGINE. It's been like that quite a while now.

So WHY THE HELL did you all upvote this to NUMBER ONE??? Jesus Christ I swear it's like a gossip magazine here some days.

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by tghw » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:20 PM UTC

I'm gonna say no...unless Google has started using GoDaddy to register their domains and uses nsXX.domaincontrol.com instead of nsX.google.com for their name servers.

Re: Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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Post by mpotter » Fri, Oct 02, 2009, 3:28 PM UTC

axod wrote: post #16

WTF no, Registrant: Giri Nirkondar 1929 Clover Ct Pleasanton, California 94588 United States Someone just pointed the domain at GOOGLE APP ENGINE. It's been like that quite a while now. So WHY THE HELL did you all upvote this to NUMBER ONE ??? Jesus Christ I swear it's like a gossip magazine here some days.

In retrospect, I feel bad submitting this. It was my first submission in the two years or so I've been here (~1 with an account), which makes it worse.

In my defense, I had no idea it would be upvoted so highly.