* Google isn't a domain registrar. If they were then one would hope that google.com would be registered under them, not markmonitor.com (a popular corporate reg

* Google isn't a domain registrar. If they were then one would hope that google.com would be registered under them, not markmonitor.com (a popular corporate registrar) As pointed out, Google is a domain registrar - http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/01/google_domain_seller/ http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/02/01/google_domain_seller... The server hostname is a subdomain of amazonaws.com and doesn't require registration. * In fact, the entire name is autogenerated from the IP address using a simple substitution rule. I don't have technical answers to these * I'm not sure how Google finds these, because their own "what links here" doesn't turn anything up. Google has a tonne of ways we don't know about for finding domains, there is at least one case I've seen where a deep URL has been indexed after only a mention in gmail * Side note: while searching for backlinks in Google, I noticed that this article seems to have been copypasta'd to a dozen other blogs. That's SEO, baby! Thats actually content scraping and aggregation, SEOMoz has a tendancy to get there articles ripped off with much haste and from 150+ blogs (I have been mentioned in them a few times and they always set my Google Alerts wacky)