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Did Google just buy dropbox.com?

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18 pointsmpotter15 comments

If not, how long have they had it?

WTF no,

Registrant: Giri Nirkondar 1929 Clover Ct Pleasanton, California 94588 United States

Someone just pointed the domain at GOOGLE APP ENGINE. It's been like that quite a while now.

So WHY THE HELL did you all upvote this to NUMBER ONE??? Jesus Christ I swear it's like a gossip magazine here some days.

In retrospect, I feel bad submitting this. It was my first submission in the two years or so I've been here (~1 with an account), which makes it worse.

In my defense, I had no idea it would be upvoted so highly.

I'm gonna say no...unless Google has started using GoDaddy to register their domains and uses nsXX.domaincontrol.com instead of nsX.google.com for their name servers.

dropbox != getdropbox.com

FWIW.

Yeah, and I think it's a shame because, while getdropbox.com works great as a marketing site, getdropbox.com/home doesn't feel right for their Web interface.

wow I had no idea. How do I get to dropbox? I almost signed up for getdropbox.com a few days ago.

The whois is from someone who registered it in 1995, so I would say no.

It's a shame that Google gets the A record, since it now gets ~40k UVs from getdropbox.com misdirects...

http://siteanalytics.compete.com/dropbox.com/

i must admit, if i owned the dropbox.com domain and wasn't doing anything with it, i would have either sold it to the dropbox team, or used it as a front for the dropbox affiliate program.

Wasn't dropbox.com run by a Canadian University or a Canadian student? I seem to recall searching for dropbox and ended up at the non 'get' one and it was a website of something different.

it has been like that for a while now.

Has dropbox ever had the dropbox.com adress? AFAIK they have always used getdropbox.com

No. But they should. :)

Does this mean that Google might buy Dropbox that is at getdropbox.com now?

They are using godaddy nameservers so something must be off there.

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