They've been doing it for years, it's a pretty well known thing at this point which is long past the point of needing new evidence.
PS: Use gandi.net, both for search and registration.
PS: Use gandi.net, both for search and registration.
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.
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
Lots of instances of it, I won't bother listing all of it here as I'm on a phone.
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.
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.