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Duck.com is owned by Google

• asadlionpk 12y ago
  this is sad.
• eduardtm 12y ago
  they should also buy chicken.com , which I do not own btw
• seventytwo 12y ago
  So?
• drewvolpe 12y ago
  Google acquired the domain when they bought On2, a video code company which was originally called the Duck Corporation. @yegg (founder of DDG) tried to buy it from Google in 2010. He gave his take on it the last time this was posted to HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817812 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4817812
• dang 12y ago
  This is not a Show HN. "Show HN" is for something you've made that other people can try: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html. It doesn't go on posts like this, or everything would have it. After all, every post is implicitly showing HN something.