Wouldn't it be better to link to the original post at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-... ?
no, because that one requires registration to read.
It does not.
Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
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#63Wouldn't it be better to link to the original post at https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-... ?
no, because that one requires registration to read.
Maybe LinkedIn detected a previous session and therefore wants you to log in?
Do you have the same behavior in a private window?
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#65He never actually owned it. This was just a bug in the Google domains control panel. The source of truth (I believe ICANN) would never showed a change of ownership.
Well, the original post talks about him getting Google Webmaster tools for google.com, which while still not "owning" the domain itself, is interesting because it means more happened than just the domain buying app thinking he owned it.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
Hotmail.co.uk currently has an expiry date of 23-Oct-2015, only three weeks away. I hope they don't forget to renew it this time... Google.com should be fine until 2020, but I randomly looked up some of their ccTLDs and a lot of them are set to expire in less than a year. Google.co.uk has only four months left. I wonder why large companies with deep pockets don't just register all of their domains for the maximum dur…
The oddity of the situation is that the longer you register a domain for, the more likely you are to forget about it's renewal.. However, most big companies use someone like Netnames, MarkMonitor, etc, who simply wouldn't let a domain drop, even if nobody asked them to renew it - instead they'll renew it themselves, keep it active, and simply add it to the next invoice.
Even so, it seems unnecessarily risky for MarkMonitor et al. to renew their customers' domains one year at a time, often at the last minute, instead of keeping a comfortable buffer of two or more years.
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#69What would happen if someone actually managed to move google.com to a non-google registrar account under their control? Would someone step in and just seize it back? Can you imagine the magnitude of client devices hitting the wrong server for gmail,android updates,chrome even for a few minutes?
DNS takes a few hours to fully propagate, last time I checked.
Back in the day I remember this was true, but nowadays when I make changes to DNS in USA, the change is nearly instantly reflected over here in the UK, and a matter of minutes for apparent propagation worldwide. It's gotten a lot faster!
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#70Earlier quoted context omitted.
Maybe LinkedIn detected a previous session and therefore wants you to log in? Do you have the same behavior in a private window?
This link requires login for me even in private window.
I'm pretty sure LinkedIn filters by IP address. A long time ago, I noticed they let me through without logging in if I used my home connection, but made me log in if I were connecting through my VPN.
Note: exact same browser session, minutes apart.