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Google Mystery Domain Reroutes 3% of Net Surfers

Posted by CmdrTaco on from the 3%-of-a-lot-is-still-a-lot dept.

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."

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  1. Re:1e400.net? by eihab · · Score: 5, Informative

    Wrong summary. I emailed the editors a minute too late I guess.

    The domain is 1e100.net:

    Domain Name: 1E100.NET
          Registrar: MARKMONITOR INC.
          Whois Server: whois.markmonitor.com
          Referral URL: http://www.markmonitor.com/
          Name Server: NS1.GOOGLE.COM
          Name Server: NS2.GOOGLE.COM
          Name Server: NS3.GOOGLE.COM
          Name Server: NS4.GOOGLE.COM
          Status: clientDeleteProhibited
          Status: clientRenewProhibited
          Status: clientTransferProhibited
          Status: clientUpdateProhibited
          Status: serverDeleteProhibited
          Status: serverRenewProhibited
          Status: serverTransferProhibited
          Status: serverUpdateProhibited
          Updated Date: 13-oct-2009
          Creation Date: 25-sep-2009
          Expiration Date: 25-sep-2019

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  2. Re:wtf? by Spad · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's supposed to be 1e100.net, i.e. 1x10^100 or a Googol.

  3. Re:1e400.net? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Informative

    Some thoughts about the domain name itself. Google probably wanted to use 10e100, since that character string means 10 to the 100 power - in other words, a googol. Not sure why they settled for 1e100, because that only comes out to a measly 1.

    You're wrong. 1e100 is 1 * 10^100

    "e" is not the same as "^"

  4. Re:1e400.net? by Jimmy_B · · Score: 5, Informative

    XeY means X*10^Y, not X^Y.