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Google's domain is pointed at Google nameservers. If you point a domain you control to your own nameserver, you can direct it to any IP you want, on any networ
by il 16y ago
Google's domain is pointed at Google nameservers.
If you point a domain you control to your own nameserver, you can direct it to any IP you want, on any network.
- code_duck 16y agoAha, that's the catch. Thanks for the info.
- mthoms 16y agoNot necessarily a catch though. Many (most?) registrars and web hosts provide name servers free for their users (GoDaddy lets you do this for example). If you can add/edit DNS records can point a subdomain anywhere you like.
- code_duck 16y agoBut, that doesn't mean I'm free to point evildomain.google.com to anywhere I prefer, right?
- prodigal_erik 16y agoYou can do that, but nobody believes your nameserver is authoritative for questions about google.com, so it will only affect someone whom you can persuade to use yours as their default nameserver. Everyone else who asks the "com" top-level domain nameservers who is authoritative for google.com is going to be sent to GOOG's nameservers, not yours, so names you define will be invisible to them.
- mthoms 16y agoAlso, note that you could have google.evildomain.com - At least until you get a C&D order that is.