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It is using Bing engine and data.
That would make it even funnier!
It is not a joke. There is a partnership with Microsoft. Search engines are hard.
Argentine version of Google falls into “wrong” hands
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#42How 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’.
There are also very little requirements to running a registrar...
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#43Fun article, but they will get it back with relative ease. Happens all the time. Trademark domain.
Just like that? A court order $4 dollar refund and have a nice day? That's a bit anticlimatic.
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Oh wow even GoDaddy provides the service. Interesting. Thanks!
I would assume that would just give them more information for their domain broker services to raise the price of the domain.
Sure, but so does doing a whois or an NS check. Plenty of registrars and registries are known to have abused such data in the past.
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#45This is still happening? It used to be very annoying decade or so ago, but I thought it was already solved/fixed/improved.
Are there really no option to make a domain registration without expiration?
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#46Actually, it turns out http://google.ar/ might still be owned by someone else?
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#47somebody actually posted it as an 'ask hn' last night! I'm actually physically hurting right now. I wonder how much google will pay to get their precious domain back.
Can't they forcefully take it? [0]
[0]: https://www.icann.org/resources/pages/cybersquatting-2013-05...
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#48However, minutes later after the manoeuvre, it was confirmed that Google has already recovered the domain.
I'm confused. It seems to me that this article just through some lines in it without further explanation.
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#49The domain google.gi is still for sale, because it can only be purchased by people who live in Gibraltar. See also, this post: https://tinyprojects.dev/posts/i_bought_netflix_dot_soy
Wouldn't someone from Gibraltar be able to buy and lease it to Google?
Yeah, but Google wouldn’t want any part of that type of arrangement. Better to let it go un-associated with the country than to depend on some other party that can extort at renewal time.
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#50Google has also failed to buy their Soviet domain name: http://google.su/ And they even forgot about http://google.xn--vermgensberatung-pwb/
Soviet union is dead, let's keep it that way