Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
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Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
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Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#2My guess is it's just a bug in Google domains, allowing them to 'register' domains that the lookup RPC failed for. Google doesn't act as the registrar for their own domain, so there was never any risk of the ownership actually getting transferred to him.
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#3Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#4What 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?
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#5What 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.
Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#6What 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?
That would be like buying the worlds biggest DDOS botnet holy cow.
Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#7Mods can you please change to the source URL instead? (Not that I'm a fan of linkedin...)
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/i-purchased-domain-googlecom-...
Edit: Here's a mirror for those that happen to have linkedin.com nullrouted in hosts or something: https://archive.is/HKPhn
Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#8What 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?
I can imagine that such an attack would be dealt with a mix of manual intervention and technical measures, something in between the Google.com search page outage that happens once in a blue moon, and the false routes for YouTube.com IPs that have been propagated several times during the past few years.
Big companies that rely on Internet presence are quite pro-active, and there are teams of people whose job is to prevent something like this from happening in the first place.
DNS is not a secure protocol, and you can redirect connections intended for google.com from the same local network easily, yet the world still keeps turning.
Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#9What 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.
The propagation "speed" is the effect of clients honoring the records' TTLs. Clients and intermediate servers are responsible for pulling updates to whatever records they believe are stale; the DNS itself just sits there serving queries.
Clients and caches sometimes disregard the TTL or use their own, so sometimes changes to a record "haven't propagated" to some clients, but what's really going on is something that's supposed to keep its info fresh decided not to.
Though it's possible for clients to get out of date, the story of a built-in propagation speed you can't do anything about is based on misconceptions. The record owner has a lot of say in how and when their records get refreshed.
Re: Someone bought 'Google.com' from Google for one minute
#10What 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?
Google has HSTS so requests will be prematurely terminated, however it'll still be a huge DDoS attack.