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Google Mystery Domain Reroutes 3% of Net Surfers
An anonymous reader writes "A new Google domain — 1e100.net, a nod to the company's famously misspelled name — is now the net's 44th most visited site. Google says the domain is used to 'identify servers' on its internal network, hinting that reverse DNS plays a role. The domain was registered in September and launched in October, about the same time Google unveiled Spanner, a new addition to its backend infrastructure designed to shift loads automatically among its data centers."
a Quoogle?
A Russian writer? This thing gets weirder and weirder.
Or like we normal people like to say it, it is an invalid domain name.
Such an egregious spelling mistake, and nobody yet has snatched up the name and directed it to goatse.fr? Come on guys, you can do better than that!
Could someone explain that one cause I really don't get it or see the nod.
Someone screwed up because it should have been 4e100.net, aka "four googol" aka "for google"
"Science flies us to the moon. Religion flies us into buildings." - Victor Stenger
-o-o-o-.net is neither RFC1123- nor RFC952-compliant.
With longer straps perhaps?
l-o-o-o-l.net
Set your phasers on "funky"!
W-U03B1.net ranks in the top 1e100 domains, according to Alexa.
Set your phasers on "funky"!
I thought it was a contraction of "Go ogle" as a nod to the amount of porn viewed on the internet each day.
Floating in the black seas of infinity without a paddle.
>Could someone explain that one cause I really don't get it or see the nod.
After a long mescaline trip Eric Schmidt and Larry Page decided the company should be called LEE00 (pronounced lee-ooooo) and the l33t-speak domain 1e400.net was born.
After poor reception from investors and users alike a memo was written up asking all employees to suggest a new domain name. A young intern, who later committed suicide in a bizarre self decapitation with a chainsaw, suggested that 1 to the 400th power was actually a gogool. Schmidt and Page were impressed and after accepting how less fun it is to say gogool than "leeee-oooooo" decided to change the name. Because its difficult to trademark a real word, they just went with "google." 1e400.net is a nod to the good old leeee-ooooo days.
*actually its 1 to 100th power