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Preface: I have only little knowledge aboud DNS records. Feel free to correct or add any information. Here is what 10 minutes on the internet got me: - Accord
by mikejb 10y ago
Preface: I have only little knowledge aboud DNS records. Feel free to correct or add any information.
Here is what 10 minutes on the internet got me:
- According to Wikipedia [0] DDG started 2008
- The whois record shows 1995 as creation date (I assume this is the first time someone registered it back then?)
- According to [1] the Domain changed owners 3 times (since 2002); These records indicate Google bought the domain latest in 2010
- According to [2] DuckDuckGo Traffic 2010 was between 40k-80k quries per day (~0.5 - 1 QPS)
Unfortunately, this doesn't allow (me) to draw a clear conclusion. (If duck.go were bought in 2005 or 2015, it would have been more clear...)
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DuckDuckGo
[1] http://whoisrequest.com/history/ http://whoisrequest.com/history/
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html https://duckduckgo.com/traffic.html
- NetStrikeForce 10y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20101002183258/http://duck.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20101002183258/http://duck.com/ in October 2010 it still had the website for a software development company. The redirect was added shortly after in 2010: https://web.archive.org/web/20101203075708/http://www.duck.com/ https://web.archive.org/web/20101203075708/http://www.duck.c... I don't think there's even malice. They probably bought the domain and "parked" it by doing a 301 to Google.com - that's it.
- lucideer 10y agoIt apparently came to them when they acquired the Duck Corporation[0], but I think it seems slightly naïve to assume no malice in setting up the redirect. Google own many many domains that do not redirect to google.com or similar. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duck_Corporation