But I don't see any proof that GoDaddy is the registrant of that domain, they're just the registrar. I don't see any evidence of front-running in this case. I see it more as coincidence if anything else.
PS: Use gandi.net, both for search and registration.
I'm not saying they didn't do it, but I base my opinions on facts, not speculation or "they've been doing it for years".
I'm just not seeing any evidence in the WHOIS record that GoDaddy registered that domain--it could have been one of their customers.
Lots of instances of it, I won't bother listing all of it here as I'm on a phone.
Their interface is very clean, their business model is no-nonsense, and I dig the managed DNSSEC.
Also, namecheap’s beast mode if you want to check hundreds of domains at once.
There's a reason my personal domain is nothingofvalue.org instead of .com. Because when I went to register the .com originally and backed out at the last minute to give myself time to setup a PO Box (didn't like the ICANN publicly displaying my mailing address), I came back two days later and noticed that someone had registered the .com domain.
You could be right that it's Google, but I doubt they would risk a scandal to make a few bucks like that.
> You could be right that it's Google, but I doubt they would risk a scandal to make a few bucks like that.
I think this HN thread has shown that it seems to be something of an open secret among domain registrars, so I'm not sure it would necessarily be a "scandal", particular given how hard it would be for me to prove it.
The whois information is masked, because that's what we do to protect customer privacy.
https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-whois-records-no-more-co...
It's registered to someone in New York, not to GoDaddy.
Registrant Organization: Registrant State/Province: New York Registrant Country: US
Respectfully, I stated an objective fact and nothing more, backed by an evidentiary link. As the other reply and yours seemed to have missed the context to which I was replying, "This is really bizarre behavior for HN" which was being contested by my reply - in hindsight I should have quoted it to be blatantly obvious to speed readers.
https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-whois-records-no-more-co...
It's registered to someone in New York, not to GoDaddy.
Registrant Organization: Registrant State/Province: New York Registrant Country: US
(As a bonus - securities regulators can easily request business records, and will raid offices if they need to - it could be argued a more energetic approach like this in the tech space would not be a bad thing and I would expect travel in this direction as economies continue to rely on further on IT and if companies pull stunts like this it will be deserved).
The whois information is masked, because that's what we do to protect customer privacy.
https://domaininvesting.com/godaddy-whois-records-no-more-co...
It's registered to someone in New York, not to GoDaddy.
Registrant Organization: Registrant State/Province: New York Registrant Country: US